SPECCHIO, GEOGRAFICO ET STATISTICO DELL'IMPERO DE MOROCCO.

Graberg Di Hemsö, Jacopo

Numéro d'objet:	39
Date:	1834
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Genève
Sujet:	Géographie / Géologie

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GRABERG DI HEMSO Jacopo

Specchio geografico, e statistico dell'impero di Marocco. Genève, Dalla Tipografia Pellas 1834 in-8 demi-percaline 364 p. avec 1 frontispice, 7 planches hors-texte et 1 carte repliée.; (Playfair 530) L'ouvrage, d'une grande rareté, a une réputation que certains auteurs trouvent imméritée. Graberg de Hemso, suédois, bibliothécaire privé du Grand Duc, a eu le droit de se servir des types arabes de la Medicea pour sa "Notizia.. d'Ibn Khaldun"

1832. Gråberg, Jacopo di Hemsö. Specchio geografico, e statistico dell' imperio di Marocco. Genova : 8vo, pp. 363, with map and plates. 2nd edition 1834.
The introduction refers to 90 different authors on Morocco; but, like many « facts » in his book, they are not always correctly stated. The volume has indeed always enjoyed an undeserved reputation, and is almost worthy of the contempt M. Fissot (Nos. 1213, 1251) bestows upon it. The author knew little of the country beyond Tangier, and actually copies Leo Africanus' description of places in the interior (without acknowledgment), unaware that all of them had changed in three centuries, and that several of them no longer exist. The lists of the Sultans &c. are, however, valuable, and there is much information not to be found elsewhere.
The work has an indifferent map and some badly executed, though not untruthful, illustrations, a detailed index and copious notes.
Vol. III.


Première édition de cet érudit suédois
L'auteur était en 1819 vice consul gérant du consulat général de Suède et Norvège. Expulsé du Maroc en 1822. Fut consul de Sardaigne, il fut un bon connaisseur du Maroc. Son livre est un des plus justement célèbre malgré des erreurs et des plagiats de Jackson. Il fut lui même pillé de ses écrits tout au long du XIX° siècle.

Count Jakob Gråberg di Hemsö (Hemse 1776-1847 Florence), was born in Hemse parish on the isle of Gotland in Sweden. Originally a sailor, he became Swedish vice consul in Genua 1811, afterwards in Tanger 1815-1822, and finally Swedish general consul in Tripoli 1822-1828. He worked as a writer and researcher in Florence and was given the title "comes palatinus" (count) by the pope. He also became head librarian at the Pitti Palace by the grand duke of Tuscany.