{"title":"Travel Catalogue 2025 | Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-africa\"\u003eAfrica\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-greece-the-ottoman-world-central-asia\"\u003eGreece, the Ottoman World \u0026amp; Central Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-arabia-and-mesopotamia\"\u003eArabia \u0026amp; Mesopotamia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-india-east-asia\"\u003eIndia \u0026amp; East Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-antarctic\"\u003eAntarctic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2-arctic-america-australia-voyages\"\u003eArctic, America, Australia \u0026amp; Voyages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shapero.com\/collections\/travel-catalogue-2025-part-2\"\u003eShop full catalogue\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/Travel_2025_Part_2_-_spreads.pdf?v=1760437182\"\u003eDownload e -catalogue\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shapero.us10.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=1f5b82db110eaa34e31f70c51\u0026amp;id=84f4d29866\"\u003eSubscribe to our newsletter\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"oakes-treatment-english-bednore-1785-108553","title":"An Authentic Narrative of the Treatment of the English, who were Taken Prisoners","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eeyewitness account\u003c\/h4\u003eThe first edition of Henry Oakes' (1756-1827) eyewitness account describing the treatment of prisoners following the capitulation of the British garrison at Bednore in 1783.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOakes was adjutant-general of the East India Company forces who surrendered to the army of Tipu Sultan during the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784). His account relates the harsh treatment meted out to the soldiers and followers of the British camp, which included 'seizing those who had lately suffered amputation, by the stumps, and [leaving] them in that painful wretched condition upon the bare ground, entirely exposed to the heat of the sun' (p.5)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterestingly, the publisher goes some way to redress the imbalance of Oakes' narrative, reproducing the letter from Lieutenant John Sheen to his father dated 2nd May 1784 which describes the brutal British capture of the fort at Annampore earlier in the year. Instructed to give no quarter, the young officer recalls how 'four hundred beautiful women [were] either killed or wounded with the bayonet, expiring in one anothers arms, while the private soldiers were committing every kind of outrage'. Viewed in this light, the treatment of Oakes and his fellow soldiers is seen as 'retaliation for the various enormities committed by the troops of the Company' (pp.77-78), and readers are left to make up their own minds in apportioning blame and sympathy for the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 8vo (21 x 13 cm); National Army Museum stamps and annotations to endpapers and lower margin of p.31, lacking half title, minor spotting, light marginal damp staining, relevant article from the Observer dated 26th January 1800 tipped in to head of p.93; later marbled paper wrappers, cloth label with MS shelf-marks to foot of upper panel, rubbed; [3], vi-vii, [1], 93, [1] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePickett 1497; ESTC T111563.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"OAKES, Henry.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547534450993,"sku":"108553","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/108553_e510964d-ece2-4890-9136-e14b4222a8bf.jpg?v=1784783020"},{"product_id":"robinson-refutation-wellsteds-attack-1842-109219","title":"Refutation of Lieutenant Wellsted's Attack","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eauthor's presentation copy\u003c\/h4\u003eRare work concerning Wellsted's travels and the dispute over the travels of James Bruce. 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Frederick Robinson was presumably an officer on board the Minerva during Annesley's journey and could testify to the genuineness of Annesley's accounts as opposed to the allegedly unsubstantiated Bruce. Modern experts find Bruce's accounts totally believable and accurate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRare; with no copies appearing at auction in the last thirty years. This copy, of what was likely a very limited number privately printed for presentation, is inscribed on the end-leaf 'William Stride Esq. 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Purchas considered Sir John Mandeville to be akin to Marco Polo in terms of importance 'the greatest Asian Traveller that ever the World had' (Pilgrimes III, p65). His travels take the reader through Turkey, Armenia, Persia, Tartary, Arabia, India and China, and gave many Europeans their first taste of the Near and Middle East, as well as the East Indies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLittle is known of Mandeville himself, however he claims to be an English Knight who travelled between 1322 and 1356, serving under both the Sultan of Egypt and the Great Khan. Although traditionally attributed to Mandeville, in reality the work was an English version of a text known as Itinerarium, of which the original, ascribed to Jean d'Outremeuse, was probably written in Anglo-Norman French. All pre-1725 editions of Mandeville are scarce, and editions such as this, in a vernacular language, particularly so. 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