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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Shaw (Dr Thomas)

REIZEN EN AANMERKINGEN DOOR EN OVER BARBARYEN EN HET OOSTE

Uit het Engels vertaald door P. Boddaert, Med.Dr., Met Aanteekeningen van de Vertaler; S. Rau, M. Tydeman en C. Saxe

Published: Te Amsterdam by De Compagnie, Amsterdam, 1780

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $250/300

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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2 volumes: I. xxxi,[1] (to xxxvi - Lyst der Inteekenaren), 365, (i printer’s colophon). II. (vi), 224, 144, (xxxii) pages bladwyser (unopened), 8 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved maps, 6 engraved folding plates (including a musical score), 21 engraved plates, (all as called for in the lists of maps and plates), title page vignettes, chapter head pieces and initials, old half calf with sprinkled paper boards, titled gilt on the spines, booksellers ticket on the front paste down end papers in both volumes, uncut fore-edge and bottom edge in vol.II, complete with the half title pages a very good set.

The Dutch translation of Dr Shaw’s second expanded edition of his Travels in Barbary and the Levant published in 1757. The author travelled from the Levant to Tunis and Algeria. A botanical section describes more than six hundred and forty species.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (270 x 230mm)


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