Thomas and William Daniell (1749-1840 & 1769-1837)

細節

Thomas and William Daniell (1749-1840 & 1769-1837)
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China. London: Thomas Davison, for William Daniell, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810.

Oblong 2°, bound upright (347 x 257mm). 50 hand coloured aquatint plates, each with corresponding leaf of letterpress description, all leaves on guards. (Some light browning and spotting, short marginal tear in first plate, final text leaf creased with small repairs at fore-edge.) Modern half red calf.

拍品專文

Thomas Daniell and his nephew William undertook their voyage to India in April 1785 aboard the Indiaman Atlas, via China; they returned in 1794. The plates illustrate the outward journey from Gravesend, around the Cape of Good Hope, through islands of Indonesia, via China, to arrive at Calcutta. Lipperheide Le 22; Tooley 173; Abbey Travel 516.