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1859 Four Months in Algeria: With a Visit to Carthage
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed
The first edition.
The author's presentation copy, with his inscription to the half title; "From the author".
Illustrated with a monochrome wood engraved frontispiece, a large folding monochrome map, five wood engraved plates, and two further folding plates. Collated, complete.
Reverend Joseph Williams Blakesley's account of his four month trip to Algeria and Carthage. The work provides a topographical account of Algeria, and covers his voyage, the people, his experiences in Guelma, Batna, Constantine and Tunis, archaeological remains, and more.
In the publisher's original cloth.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with minor wear to the extremities and the odd slight mark. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with light spotting to the odd page to the front and folding map, otherwise clean. Author's inscription to the half title.
Very Good Indeed
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