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[BADIA Y LEBLICH, Domingo] (pseudonym: 'Ali Bey'). Travels of ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoll, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey. London: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and brown, 1816.
2 volumes, 4° (272 x 212mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 90 engraved plates and maps, some folding. (Some slight spotting, occasional neat repairs to folding plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, g.e. (joints of vol.II split).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The first edition was in French and published in Paris in 1814. The author was a spanish traveller who disguised as an Arab gained access to many locations in Asia Minor and north Africa forbidden to Christians. Blackmer 62; Palau 21683. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (272 x 212mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 90 engraved plates and maps, some folding. (Some slight spotting, occasional neat repairs to folding plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, g.e. (joints of vol.II split).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The first edition was in French and published in Paris in 1814. The author was a spanish traveller who disguised as an Arab gained access to many locations in Asia Minor and north Africa forbidden to Christians. Blackmer 62; Palau 21683. (2)