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SHAW, THOMAS. Travels or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford, printed at the Theatre, Stephen Niblett, 1738. + A Supplement to a book entituled travels, or observations, &c... Oxford, printed at the Theatre, E. Isham, 1746.

Folio (330x215 mm.). (8, last blank), xv, (1 Errata), 442, (2), (1)-60, (8), (2), xvi, 112 pp. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of Oxford, several engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials. 35 engraved plates and maps (in total, including 2 in the supplement), of which 11 engraved maps (some folding), 20 engraved plates (including several natural history subjects printed recto and verso), 1 engraved double-page table and 1 fullpage engraved music, many woodcut text illustrations (tear and damage to one fold on the map of kingdom of Tunis, some spotting and slight soiling).
Contemporary blindtooled brown full calf, upper board with some scratches and stains, rebacked and with repaired upper corner, gilt spine in compartments with red title label, gilt edges. Text with some foxing of slight spotting, title with some soiling to margins. Engraved bookplate of Sir Francis L. H. Goodricke Bart.

Blackmer 1553. First edition. Including the separate Supplement printed 1746. This appeared as a reply to adverse criticism and objections made by Richard Pococke in this "Decription of the East", published in 1743-1745.

Thomas Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English factory at Algiers between 1720 and 1734, during which time he travelled widely in North Africa and the Levant, and his Travels were esteemed for the botanical and zoological illustrations and for the descriptions of antiquities. Shaw is well known in the field of botany for his catalogue of the rarer plants which he observed during his travels in Barbary, Egypt, and Arabia, a classification amounting to 632 species and including crude plates, all donated to Oxford University, where he became Regius Professor of Greek in 1741, and preserved under the name of Shawia.
The half-title reads ´Travels, or Geographical, Physical and Miscellaneous Observations &c.´ Also included is ´A Collection Of Such Papers As Serve To Illustrate The Foregoing Observations´, with separate half-title, pagination and register. Four of the head-pieces and one tail-piece are by Hubert Gravelot, and one head-piece is by John Rocque. ESTC t114690. (Sir John Soane´s Museum London).

Auktionsnummer:

6070

Datum:

2020-12-10