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Descrizione : Shaw, T. Reizen en Aanmerkingen, Door en Over Barbaryen en het Ooste (...). Uit het Engelsch vertaald en Vermeerderd en Opgehelderd met Aanteekeningen van den Vertaler, S. Rau, M. Tydeman, C. Saxe en P. Boddaert. Amst., De Compagnie, 1780, 3 parts in 2 vols., XXIV,XX,409, (10),208, 99,(1)p., 2 ident. engr. titles, 13 (fold.) maps, fold. view of Algiers and an interior view of a house, 25 (fold.) plates, 6 vignettes, woodcut textills., sl. later calf, 4to. - Vol. I htitle, title and view of Algiers waterstained, otherwise a few lvs. (sl.) waterstained in outer lower corner, a few fold. maps tear in image on inner margin, pagination of part I begins at p.(5), but appears to be complete. Top of spine vol. 2 w. chip. Despite the defects, a very good copy. = Tiele 1001, Cox I, p.377, Nissen ZBI 3841 (all first Dutch ed. Utr., 1773), cf. Blackmer 1533, Aboussouan 842, Gay 391 This edition is the only one with the fine large engr. view of Algiers. The first (English) edition was published in 1738, four years after Shaw's return from Africa. Howgego S92: English scholar, natural historian and traveller (1692-1751). (...) After receiving holy orders, Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English factory in Algiers. He held the post for twelve years, then travelled for three years across North Africa, passing through Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and continuing into Palestine and Syria. With nice plates of ancient Egyptian archaeological findings, birds, plants, as well as various trivia such as the size of pyramids, the method of making sulfamate by the ancient Egyptians. Also with various linguistic lists.
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