TRAVELS OR OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO SEVERAL PARTS OF BARBARY AND THE LEVANT

Shaw, Thomas (1691 - 1752)

Numéro d'objet:	24922
Date:	1738
Genre:	Livre à planches
Lieu:	Oxford
Sujet:	Voyages

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Thomas Shaw, who spent thirteen years in Algiers as chaplain to the factury of English merchants, published his Travels or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant in 1738 (and added a supplement in 1746). The work is illustrated and, even if Shaw describes the inhabitants and the natural life of the countries he visited, he places a strong emphasis on Roman inscriptions and antiquities not only in North Africa and Egypt but also in Greater Syria.

Folio (35 x 22 cm), [3], xv, 442, 60, [8] pp. With 28 engraved plates only (of 29), maps, a few folding, views and botanical plates, ill. i.t. With observations on Algiers, Tunis, natural history of Algiers and Tunis, Syria, Egypt and Arabia Petraea. Engraved music on p. 272. Without the supplement published in 1746, several plates and maps soiled and torn, first 2 leaves loose and slightly defective. 19th c. half calf
First edition. Gay, n° 391; Cox, I, 377.