The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains
de TRISTRAM, H. B. [Henry Baker];
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London, John Murray, 1860, First edition. . orig pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, part of spine cloth is lightened, bookplate removed from endpaper, internal hinge cracked but firm, very good overall, interior clean & near fine, inscribed by author 'with the author's best regards'. 8vo [21 x 14 cm]; xiv, [i, list of illus], 435, 32 [publisher's ads dated Dec. 1860] pp, complete with 11 plates including frontis of Oasis of El Kantara, 2 folding colored maps including large one at end (short tear), other illus, title page vignette. . The author had travelled extensively in the middle east, Holy Land and North Africa. After describing his detailed preparations, the author describes his travels south from Algiers through northwest Africa, with much on the peoples, conditions, customs, celebrations, feasts, ruins, language, etc. The appendices including mammals, birds, reptiles, mollusca, plants collected, geology, geography, history of the Sahara. One of the maps shows caravan routes, the large map shows author's route in red. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains
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- TRISTRAM, H. B. [Henry Baker];
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- Orig pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, part of spine cloth is lightened, bookplate removed from endpaper, intern
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- London, John Murray, 1860, First edition.
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- 8vo [21 x 14 cm]; xiv, [i, list
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- Travel - Africa;
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