- 1288
Tully, Richard
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description
- Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa... also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London: Henry Colburn, 1816
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FIRST EDITION, 4to (270 x 205mm.), xiv, [ii], 370pp., engraved folding map, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary diced calf, gilt spine, covers panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, light offsetting of text onto plates, upper joint slightly split
Literature
Abbey, Travel 299; Atabey 1241 (second edition); Blackmer 1682 (third edition); Weber II, 612
Catalogue Note
"The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio" (Blackmer).