Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 801
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Lyon, George Francis

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Description

  • A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa… accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan. London: John Murray, 1821
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (265 x 210mm.), xii, 384pp., large folding engraved map, 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, green label

Literature

Abbey, Travel 304; Blackmer 1044

Catalogue Note

An account of an attempt to reach central Africa from the north. Lyon had spent four months before the trip learning Arabic, and travelled in disguise, under the alias Said-ben-Abdallah.