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| Title | Reizen en Aanmerkingen door en over Barbaryen en het Ooste. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door P. Boddaert met Aanteekeningen v. den Vertaler: S. Rau, M. Tydeman en C. Saxe. |
| Author | Shaw, Dr. Thomas [1694-1751] |
| Edition | 2nd. Dutch |
| Published | De Compagnie Amsterdam 1780 |
| Illustrator | De Huijser, Van Schley |
| Description | 2 Vols in 1. XXXVI-365 & 224 PP. with extensive list of notes and excerpts to "explain the previous text"144 PP. +[30 ] PP. [Indexes ]: A title edition of the Dutch translation, by Pieter Boddaert of Shaw's travel Account, of the considerably expanded second English edition of 1757 of a standard work on North Africa, first published by the Oxford University Press in 1738 as: "Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant by Thomas Shaw" (1692-1751). A French translation was published in The Hague in 1743; a German translation in 1765 in Leipzig. This is infact the same book with another imprint of the 1St. Dutch translation, with well executed plates [copper engravings] 8 folding and 6 full-page maps, 5 folding and 22 full-page engraved plates by Th. Koning, C.J. de Huyser, J. van Schley and S. Fokke (the maps and plates are numbered in vol. 2: 1-8, 8-11, 11*, 12-24, and one unnumb.); beautiful vignettes engraved by N. van der Meer on both titles, 5 beautifully engraved vignettes by C.J. de Huyser, N. van der Meer and N. Gravelot and interesting engraved initials by C.J. de Huyser, one map is a cunning engraving after [part of] the Peuttinger map.Fine original 1/2 calf, spine with raised bands with gilt lettering and decorations. |
| Book condition | Very Good |
| Binding | 1/2 Calf |
| Book size | 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall |
| Price |  2500 |
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