Author:
Hay, John H Drummond
Title:
Western Barbary: its Wild Tribes and Savage Animals, bound with A history Of The Siege Of Gibraltar 1779-1783
Price:
£95.00
Year:
1844
Edition:
first reprint
Publisher:
John Murray
Summary:
vi -106 +172 pages, two volumes bound in one, folding map frontis to the second volume. Tipped in between the front blank end papers a handwritten double-sided letter to James Ford offering to show a little of the country SIGNED by J Drummond Hay. Ownership signature of James Ford to the front paste down with J.H Drummond Hay card tipped in below. Contemporary half tan calf binding with gilt decorative spine in compartments. Avery good copy. The author the son of the British consul-general in Tangier. He provides details of the coastal region of North Africa with particular attention to hunting wild boar with rifle in the semi-arid scrublands, with additional encounters with lions. Czech 121
Ref:
24099
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