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Rooke, Henry.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Travels to the Coast of Arabia Felix: and from thence by the Red-Sea and Egypt, to Europe. London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1783
first edition, 8vo (203 x 120mm.), half-title, contemporary sheep, pencil markings, text slightly soiled and stained, short tear in final leaf (no loss), binding rubbed, rebacked and recornered
Literature
Macro, Yemen 702; Macro, Arabia 1936 (listing editions of 1784 and 1788 but not this one); Gay 116
Catalogue Note
rare (only one copy of the first edition recorded on ABPC - the Burrell copy which lacked the half-title). Rooke was on one of the ships of the British Fleet that sailed in 1781 in an abortive attempt to capture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch and French. He gives descriptions of Mocha, Jeddah and Cairo.