‎BALDWIN George ‎
‎Political recollections relative to Egypt; containing observations on its government under the Mamaluks, its geographic position, its intrinsic and extrinsic resources, its relative importance to England and France, and its dangers to England in the possession of France with a narrative of the ever-memorable Rritish campaign in the spring of 1801 ‎

‎London, Published by H. Baldwin and Son, 1801, 8°, half calf, title on spine (modern), VIII-227pp., with 2 illustrations in text, paper brunished. ‎

Reference : PHO-1858


‎Souvenirs historiques de George BALDWIN, (décédé en 1818), écrivain et voyageur, est un mémoire proposant de faire du commerce entre les Indes, alors largement sous domination anglaise, l’Égypte, en passant par la mer rouge et l’Angleterre. Il n'y accomplit son projet qu'en 1773, lorsqu'il se trouvait au Caire à l'époque de Méhemed Bey, qui lui dit : « Si vous amenez les navires indiens à Suez, je poserai un aqueduc depuis le du Nil à Suez, et tu boiras de l'eau du Nil. », le but étant d’installer la puissance anglaise dans la région. En seconde partie, un essai sur le traitement de la peste par l’utilisation d’huile d’olive et la troisième partie nous donne une description de la bataille d’Aboukir Historical memories of George BALDWIN, (died in 1818), mystical writer, is a memoir proposing trade between the Indies, then largely under English domination, Egypt, via the Red Sea and England. He only accomplished his project in 1773, when he was in Cairo at the time of Méhemed Bey, who told him: "If you bring the Indian ships to Suez, I will lay an aqueduct from the Nile to Sweat, and you will drink water from the Nile. », the aim being to establish English power in the region. In the second part, an essay on the treatment of the plague through the use of olive oil, the last part describe the battle of Aboukir. M-Et3 ‎

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