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An Account of The Empire of Marocco, and The District of Suse; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries
de Jackson, James Grey
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Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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William Bulmer & Co, 1814. Book. Good. hardback. hardback, third edition, quarto, measuring 10 3/4" x 8 1/2", recased with a new calf backstrip at some point, earlier diced calf boards, rubbed to the extremities of the boards. Lettered gilt on black to spine. A tightly bound copy, small bookplate of the Baptist Mission House to the front pastedown, no other labels, stamps or markings. Darkened to the edges of the endpapers and the margins of some plates, small splash marks to the fore-edge, scattered foxing and browning. Engraved frontis portrait, two folding maps, ten engraved plates of which three are coloured and some folding. xvi + 328pp. Jackson was an English merchant resident for sixteen years in Morocco, travelled extensively through the country, crossed the southern Atlas Mountains and joined the caravans to the fabled gold of Timbuktu on the Niger. He failed to reach Timbuktu, but provided an accurate and detailed itinerary of the route to it & described the city and its prospects. [AbbeyTravel 296; Prideaux 242]..
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- An Account of The Empire of Marocco, and The District of Suse; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries
- Autor
- Jackson, James Grey
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- Usado - Bien
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- No Jacket
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- William Bulmer & Co
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- 1814
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Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills
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