Travels Or Observations Relating To Several Parts Of Barbary And The Levant: Illustrated With Copperplates, Volume 1 -

London: Printed for A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757. Second Edition. Quarto (26.5cm). Full sprinkled calf, spine divided into six compartments, each stamped in gilt, titled on brown spine label, floral gilt roll to board edges, textblock edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; [xx],513,[1]pp; 37 plates, including 15 maps (9 folding) and 22 other plates (4 folding), 6 intaglio headpieces, 6 intaglio decorative initials, and occasional relief in-text diagrams. Lacking one plate (depicting the Lithostrotoum Praenestinum). Armorial bookplate of Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, with the motto of the Order of the Bath. Clean and sound, with light rubbing to board edges; one plate lacking; short tear to margin of leaf EQ2, about three leaves with marginal creases, but a charming, Very Good copy withal. Shaw (1694-1751) spent the 1720s as a chaplain in Algiers, from whence he visited Egypt, Sinai, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Tunis, Carthage, Tripoli, and Morocco. In 1738 he published the first edition of this massive… Read More