EYLES IRWIN (1751-1817) Voyage à la Mer Rouge, sur les Côtes de l'Arabie, en Egypte et dans les déserts de la Thébaïde, suivi d'un autre, de Venise, à Bassorah par Latiqué, Alep, les déserts, etc. dans les années 1780 et 1781.

Translated from the third English edition by M. Parraud. With 2 maps. Paris, Chez Briand, Libraire, 1792. 2 volumes in-8 of 1ff blank, a title page (with the bookseller's catalogue on the reverse of the title page of volume 2) +440 and 483 pp for each of the volumes + two folding maps (one in each volume). Bound in contemporary brick-red half-percaline, spines decorated with gold faux-nerves, title and tomaison. Boards covered with vat paper. The map in volume II has a very small tear (not missing) which has been previously restored. Good general condition for these two volumes. Interior very fresh, spines a little rubbed (modest but solid bindings). Eyles Irwin Irish poet and writer.