Live veiling - Lot 1048
Live veiling - Lot 1048
[Travels - Africa - Libya]
Voyage à Tripoli, ou Relation d'un séjour de dix années en Afrique [...]. Traduit de l'anglais sur la seconde édition par J. Mac Carthy.
Paris, P. Mongié the eldest, 1819
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Beschrijving lot
2 vol., 8vo: x-392, [4]-394-[1] pp.; 8 pl. (some sl. spotting, pp. 387-390 of vol. I loose).
Contemp. half sheep, marbled paper boards, gilt-orn. flat spines, marbled edges (rubbed, sm. def. to joints).
First edition of the translation of a stay in Tripoli from 1783 to 1793 written by the sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British Consul at the court of Tripoli, whose family was very close to the pasha Sidi Hassan for many years. Illustrated with a fold. map showing the Tunisian and Lybian coasts and 7 single plates figuring people and various scenes (i.a. an Egyptian puppet show).
Ref. Gay 1496bis.