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TRAVELS IN EUROPE ASIA & AFRICA/1782/A LANDMARK WORK-USED by WORLD LEADERS/2 Vol
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TRAVELS IN EUROPE ASIA & AFRICA/1782/A LANDMARK WORK-USED by WORLD LEADERS/2 Vol
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VERY RARE - SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of a CELEBRATED WORK
FINE CALF LEATHER BINDINGSTRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA & AFRICA
Describing Characters, Customs, Manners, Laws, and Productions of Nature and Art:
Containing Various Remarks on the Political and Commercial Interests of Great Britain;
And Delineating, in particular, A New System for the Government and Improvement
of
The British Settlements in the East Indies
by
[WILLIAM MACINTOSH]LONDON: Printed for J. Murray, MDCCLXXXII, 1782 [published date: 1782]. Rare First edition in two volumes. 8vo. 9.5\" x 6\" inches (LxB). Pp. xxiv, 482; xii, (1, errata), 503 pages, uncut. Fine Modern 1/2 calf leather binding, over marbled boards; gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands & red & black gilt lettered morocco labels. 2 volumes, first edition, untrimmed pages. William MacIntosh was the son of a Scots planter in the West Indies, and in 1774 was acting as Commissary General to the army of the East India Company in Bengal. These Travels are written in the form of letters to various correspondents (indicated by initials only) and have been erroneously attributed to Sir James MacKintosh, the famous philosopher, and to William Thomson, a Scots miscellaneous writer. For a full account and analysis of this work, and of its author, see Some Observations and Remarks on a Late Publication, entitled Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa. When Macintosh returned from India in the early 1780s, he spent approximately one year in London, working on this book. A Scarce book set. Complete as issued.Extremely rare. A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.

Research on Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa

.........Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (1729–1811), naval commander, circumnavigator, andveteran of the American War of Independence may well have seen parallels between his own travels—described in Voyage autour du monde(1771) and those of Macintosh (although each dealt with the concept of the “noble savage” in different ways). ..........It is, I suppose, Macintosh’s anonymity that I find so curious and compelling. Given that his book was read by British politicians, French revolutionaries, German humanists, and at least two U.S. Presidents, and that it helped to fundamentally alter the government of British India, hiserasurefrom the historical record is both noteworthy and confounding. It is unsurprising, therefore, that one author described him as“a man of mystery”—a shadowy figure on the peripheryof mainstream historiography (Fraser 1915, 18). Macintosh’s most recent appearance in a scholarly footnote occurs in Emma Rothschild’s excellent The inner lives of empires: an eighteenth-century history(2011).

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The intent of this Publication by its humane and patriotic Author, is to rescue Millions of Souls from groaning and bleeding under the iron Yoke of Tyranny and Oppression. He hath given in the Course of his Work, the most striking Proofs of Cruelty and Injustice, in the Mismanagement of the East-India Company’s Servants. It hath been from this ample Source of Information, that both Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox deduced their Knowledge, and founded all their Measures in their respective East-India Bills. In a Word, these interesting Volumes have caused greater Agitations in the English Cabinet, and greater Discussions in the English Senate, than, any Work published within the present Century. Whoever would form a just Idea of India Affairs, together with the modern State of Europe and Africa, may obtain it from a Perusal of this very ingenious and entertaining Publication.

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