up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta in 1810, & 11. Including a description of Sicily and the Lipari Islands and an Excursion to Portugal.
First edition. Volumes 1-2. Engraved title-pages, one folding & 26 aquatint plates (23 coloured, one folding coloured), three folding maps. 8vo. Contemporary green calf, richly gilt with red morocco labels to spine, rubbed at edges, split to upper joint of volume one. Internally occasional browning. Small bookseller and book binder’s ticket of George East to lower pastedown, volume one. xiv, [10], 2, 447; viii, 363, [1]errata.pp. London, J. Harding, 1815.
A beautifully illustrated work. Cockburn intended these two volumes to serve as a “Guide de Voyageur, to point out the objects most worthy of attention of future visitors” rather than a history of the islands. It is, in fact, a highly informative journal of his tour through the Mediterranean. Cockburn served with distinction in the Peninsular War and was later entrusted to transport Napoleon to St Helena. Abbey (Travel), 197.
