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Thomas Shaw (1694-1757)

Lot 67
28.04.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 519358
Lot 67 | Thomas Shaw (1694-1757)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
Thomas Shaw (1694-1757)
Voyages ... dans plusieurs provinces de la Barbarie et du Levant: contenant des observations geographiques ... sur les royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis, sur la Syrie, l'Egypte et l'Arabie Petree. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1743.
First French edition splendidly bound for the the Dukes of Luynes, with 3 more plates than usually called for. 'Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Cyprus and most of North Africa ... Shaw's Travels has been praised by Dibdin and others. It is especially esteemed for its botanical and zoological plates, in addition to the information Shaw imparts on the antiquities, geology and geography of the areas he visited. The appendix includes catalogues of plants and animals of Barbary, Egypt and Arabia' (Blackmer). Blackmer 1536; Rohricht 1352.

2 volumes, quarto (251 x 192mm). With a total of 36 engraved plates, comprising 14 maps and plans, of which 10 folding and 22 plates, of which 8 folding, titles printed in red and black (vol. 1 without the dedication leaf called for in Blackmer nor final blank F4, both evidently never bound in, occasional light browning heavier to quire Bb and plates at p.260 and p.326 in vol. 1 and to first 3 quires of vol. 2, lower corner tip of F4 in vol. 2 with old repair, occasional scattered insignificant light spotting). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt Luynes arms on covers, gilt spines each with 2 red morocco gilt lettering-pieces, others with gilt crest of Luynes, marbled endpapers, red edges (extremities faintly rubbed).
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