Shaw, Thomas (1694-1757).

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Description

Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford: printed at the Theatre, 1738

folio (345 x 221mm.), [8], xv, [1], 442, [2], 60, [8]pp., title-page printed in red and black, illustration: engraved vignette on title-page, 32 engraved maps and plans on 29 sheets, 6 engraved head-pieces and initials, one engraved tail-piece, woodcut illustrations in text, binding: contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Blackmer 1533; Röhricht 1352; Tobler p.123; Laor 725; Gay 391; Weber II, 496; Nissen ZBI 3839

Catalogue Note

first edition. Shaw worked as chaplain at the English factory in Algiers from 1720 to 1733, and during that time travelled in Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and north Africa. His Travels provide accurate descriptions of antiquities, geography and natural history. In 1746 he published a Supplement, in which he responded to the adverse criticisms of his work made by Richard Pococke in his Description of the East, published 1743 and 1745 (see lot 3250).