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Shaw, Thomas. Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant.

With 34 engr. maps or plates, some double-leaves, and some engr. head-pieces in the text. 4 leaves, XV, (1), 442 pp., 1 leaf, 60 pp., 4 leaves index. Folio. Recent full morocco over 6 raised bands, spine gilt (sign. Erica Knus). – Oxford, Printed for the Theatre, 1738.

Contains accounts on the Kingdom of Algiers, on the Kingdom of Tunis, both geographical and physical (natural history), observations relating to Syria, Egypt, (Arabia Petraea). The 60-page annex contains a collection of papers which served to illustrate the observations to the countries described. – Very clean copy in an appropriate recent private binding. – Best.-Nr. 18690