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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 223

SHAW (THOMAS)
Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, Oxford, at the Theatre, 1738

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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SHAW (THOMAS)

Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 32 engraved plates, maps and plans on 29 sheets (several folding), engraved vignettes and illustrations in text including full-page sheet of music, several early marginal annotations and corrections in ink, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, slightly frayed at extremities of spine [Blackmer 1553; Röhricht 1352; Weber I, 496], folio (340 x 220mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1738

Footnotes

Thomas Shaw acted as the chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733, during which time he travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, the Holy Land and parts of North Africa including Tunis and Carthage, taking particular interest in the antiquities and natural history of the areas visited.

Provenance: Marcus Gage, armorial bookplate, and ownership inscription inside upper cover.

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