8vo. 166 leaves, 3 folded engraved maps and 1 folded engraved illustration; 8 leaves at the end, with separate alphabet, unpaged,
for the Supplement, followed by a leaf with Errata. The dedication to Edward Cotsford dated from New Bond Street [London],
March 1st, 1785; the first Letter signed by James Capper, and dated from Fort St. George, Nov. 29, 1780, ends on P
1 recto (page 65) verso blank; on P
2, with caption title, begins
A Journey from Constantinople to Vienna, by George Baldwin, Esq; &c;
on T
1 begins
A Journey from Constantinople to Aleppo, by George Baldwin, Esq;
and on C
c4
A Journal across the Great Desert, from Bassora to Aleppo
.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit., and not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Jefferson ordered a copy from
John Stockdale, London, in a letter dated from Paris, July 24, 1786: “
M
c.intosh & Capper’s voiages. the smallest edition.
”
Stockdale’s bill, dated August 18, called for two copies:
2, Capper’s Travels, boards,
12/-
"
1
M
cIntosh’s Travels
bd.
18/-
The book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with a price in French money,
7-4 + rel.
The second copy was doubtless for the Marquis de Lafayette, to whom Jefferson wrote from Paris on August 24: “
. . . I have received for you from London Andrew’s history of the war & Capper’s travels. M
c.Intosh’s is not to be bought, the whole edition being exhausted.
”
James Capper, 1743-1825, was a colonel in the service of the East India Company, and for some time held the post of comptroller-general
of the army and fortification accounts on the coast of Coromandel. The first edition of this work was published in 1783 in
quarto.
George Baldwin, 1743-1826, English traveller and mystical writer, travelled all over the East, and was for a time consul-general in Egypt.
He was the author of a number of books.
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Macintosh’s travels.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 146, as above.
[
MacINTOSH, William.]
Travels in Europe, Asia, and 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: Begun in the Year 1777, and finished in 1781.
In
Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II.]
London: Printed for
J. Murray,
m dcc lx xxii.
[1782.]
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 253 and 258 leaves, list of errata in each volume.
Halkett and Laing VI, 80 (by William Thomson).
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 742.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Watt, 631 (by Sir James Mackintosh).
Jefferson included a copy of “
M
c.intosh & Capper’s voiages. the smallest edition
,” in a list sent by him to
Stockdale, written from Paris, July 24, 1786. McIntosh’s Travels, in boards, price
18/- is included in Stockdale’s bill, dated August 8, 1786. It is entered by Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
21.12
(
French money).
Jefferson tried to get a copy for the Marquis de Lafayette, to whom he wrote from Paris on August 24, 1786: “
. . . I have received for you from London Andrew’s history of the war & Capper’s travels. M
c.Intosh’s is not to be bought, the whole edition being exhausted.
”
This information he had received from Stockdale, who in the letter accompanying his bill had informed Jefferson that MacIntosh’s
Travels was entirely out of print.
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
