First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England, first published in English in 1773. From 1753 to 1757 Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The squadron sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to India, where they visited the chief English settlements and major cities. When Admiral Watson died in August 1757, Ives's own health was also somewhat impaired and he resigned his appointment, travelling home overland from Basra, through Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo, via Cyprus to Livorno and Venice, and finally through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England in March 1759. The plates include depictions of an altar, a Hooka (a Persian tobacco water-pipe, in the large folding plate), the tower of Babel, views of the forts St. David and Geriah, and an amulet with Arabic inscriptions, together with Dutch translations.
A few pages with some minor foxing, and a marginal water stain on the last few pages. Binding very slightly stained. A very good copy. Tiele, Bibl. 22; cf. Cox I, p. 299 (English ed.); on the author: ODNB online ed.