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IVES, EDWARD. A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV. And an Historical Narrative of the Operations of the Squadron and Army in
IVES, EDWARD. A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV. And an Historical Narrative of the Operations of the Squadron and Army in India, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the Years 1755, 1756, 1757... Also, a Journey from Persia to England, by an Unusual Route. 13 engraved plates; 2 folding engraved maps. xii, 506 pages. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, rather worn, joints cracked, cords intact; some light offsetting from plates. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773
- Notes: first edition. Ives (d. 1786) served as a surgeon under Watson in India. He passed through the Persian Gulf, Iraq, southwestern Turkey, Syria, and Cyprus on his return to England. His book contains appendices on military and tropical medicine, medical botany, and epidemiology. The engravings include an early book illustration of a water pipe. "Ives's presence at many of the transactions he describes and his personal intimacy with Watson gives his historical narrative an unusual importance, and his accounts of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and of the products of the countries he visited, are those of an enlightened and acute observer" (DNB).
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