Jacques MAC CARTHY
Voyage à Tripoli, ou relation d'un séjour de dix années en Afrique, contenant des Renseignemens et des Anecdotes authentiques sur le Pacha régnant, sur sa famille, et sur différens personnages de distinction de la cour de Tripoli, ainsi que des Observations sur les moeurs privées des Mores, des Arabes et des Turcs
[Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa]
P. Mongié aîné|Paris 1819|12.5 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the French translation, made from the second English edition and illustrated with 7 plates outside the text and 1 folding map (Gay 1496 bis).
Contemporary quarter fawn sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and typographic ornaments, brown morocco title label on the first volume, red morocco title label on the second; some restorations and rubbing to spines and joints, marbled paper boards, bumped corners, a few scrapes along the edges.
Some foxing; bookplates mounted to the pastedowns, names carefully erased.
€950