TULLY (RICHARD) Narrative of a Ten Year Residence at Tripoli in Africa, London, Henry Colburn, 1817, lge. 4to, second edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 6 plates, one folding engraved map (occasional light spotting, folding plate neatly repaired at fold), contemporary calf (spine slightly faded). [Abbey Travel 301; Playfair, Tripoli 143; Tooley 494]

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TULLY (RICHARD) Narrative of a Ten Year Residence at Tripoli in Africa, London, Henry Colburn, 1817, lge. 4to, second edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 6 plates, one folding engraved map (occasional light spotting, folding plate neatly repaired at fold), contemporary calf (spine slightly faded). [Abbey Travel 301; Playfair, Tripoli 143; Tooley 494]

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Abbey states that plate 2 of the first edition is omitted, whereas the second edition has 3 additional plates. Plate 1 'has been improved by re-drawing and re-aquatinting the figure.'

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