First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt, bookplate to front pastedowns and ownership inscriptions to title pages. xii, 448; viii, 442pp. London, Richard Bentley, 1832.
Baird’s memoir is collated from his papers and correpondence. His career was divided between time spent in India and at the Cape. “In July 1805 he was put in command of the expedition fitted out with a view to capturing the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived on January 4, 1806, when he succeeded in bringing about the capitulation of Cape Town, and the surrender of General Janssens and his forces on January 19th” (Mendelssohn). This memoir includes a full account of the incident. Mendelssohn I, p.72.
