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NOE, Louis-Pantaléon-Jules-Amédée, Comte
Mémoires relatifs a l Expedition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'Armée d'Orient.
Noe gives a detailed description of the Indian/British army, naming the various regiments and showing its soldiers and their uniforms on the coloured plates. In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte led a campaign to Egypt and Syria with his Armée d'Orient, and De Noé describes the British measures to prevent any French success. After some defeats, the British dispatched a large force from India to Egypt in 1800, and De Noé joined it. From Mumbai, they sailed to the Red Sea, went ashore at Mecca, and ended up in "Kosseir" (El Quseir), where they had to prepare themselves for a journey across the desert. De Noé describes this journey and the people they encounter, stopping at Qina and Girga before reaching Cairo. He describes the city and the Gizeh pyramids before continuing to Alexandria. He describes the Ottomans, Bedouins, and Mamluks, all shown on the plates.
- Published
- Paris: Chez Nepveu, 1826.
- References
- Blackmer sale 870. Abbey Travel 350; Colas 2208; Lipperheide 1584; Gay 2168.
- Plates
- 19
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Chez Nepveu, 1826.
- Ref
- 510
PRESENTATION COPY. Nineteen hand-coloured plates; 2 folding lithographed maps (Europe/Africa/Asia and Egypt/Red Sea) hand-coloured in outline. [4] iii [1] 288 [4] pages including half-title and errata leaves and directions to binder at the end. 8vo contemporary fine polished calf neatly re-backed; minor repair on verso of the second map scattered marginal foxing generally not affecting plates. Marbled edges and coloured endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. The FIRST EDITION with signed inscription on title page: "presented by the author to his old brother officer Sir Charles Scoville (?) 1831 - Le Comte de N[oe]." (slightly shaved). Also, MS on verso of front free endpaper. Coloured plates in order: [Folding map] "Carte Pour Indiquer la Route des differentes Expeditions contre l'Egypte en 1801." 1. Subidar or Native [&] Captain Bengal Sepays. 2. Cavalerie Indienne / Officier Indien Ciparres. Costumes de Madras. 3. Lascar d'Artillerie / Bombay Cipare / Parsy. Costumes de Bombay. 4. Grue a Sac du Bengale / ou Adjudant. 5. Indian Bramins. 6. Scene de la Danse du Sepent. 7. Une Femme / Moodelier ou chef / Larcarcen portant la feuille de Talipot. Ceylon Costumes. 8. Le Salipot ou Arbre a Eventail de Ceylan / Corypha Umbracaliflora, Linn... 9. Ornemensen Feuilles de Cocotier / Pretre de Boodou / Cooly ou Porteur. Ceylon Costumes. 10. View of Colombo Ceylon taken from the Roads. 11. Chalais ou Caste des Caneliers de Ceylan. 12. Perceur de Peles. 13. View of the Town and Fort of Aden. 14. Vue de Moka prise de la Rade. 15. Fellah ou Paysan Egyptien. 16. Janissaire / Pacha / Dervich. Costumes Turcs. 17. Arabes Bedouins. 18. Mamlouks. 19. An Arnaut or Albanian Soldier and a Delhi or Turkish Light Cavalry.
