Author: SHAW, THOMAS:
Title: Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford, printed at the Theatre, 1738.
Description: . Folio. Pp, (viii), xvi, 442; (11), 60 + index (8). With 11 engraved maps and plans (of which 3 double page and 6 folding) and 21 engraved plates, of which one folding table. Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette. Many engraved head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, decorated in blind, corners nicely restored, rebacked with five raised bands and title label. First edition. Thomas Shawn was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1722 to 1733. During this period he travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and around North Africa. "These travels have been universally esteemed, not only for their accuracy and fidelity, but on account of the illustrations they contain of natural history, of the classic authors, and especially of the Scriptures." (Lowndes). A supplement was published in 1746. Blackmer 1533. Lowndes ii,2372. Paulitschke 725. Röhricht 1352. Tobler p. 123.

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