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Price: US$325.17 + shipping
Description: in-8vo, handcoloured lithogr. frontispiece (the author in his Syrian costume) + XVI + 402 p., bound in half calf with corners, marroun and green title and vol. labels on spine, goldtooled spine, corners lightly used, marbled edges. Very fine copy. First edition. This first volume contains 24 letters to British men of high rank on a wide variety of ethnographical matters, many of which are of medical character. The author was an Irish physician; in these letters he made observations on e.g. opium eaters, the state of medicine at Constantinople (a consultation, medical priest, wounded artillery man, amulets, vapour bath, etc.), harems, ceremonies, law, the plague at Alexandria, malaria, filth of Turkish towns, religion, audience with the sultan, medical advice to western travellers in the Middle East, and many many other most interesting aspects.In his preface he describes the difficulty he encountered , when his fate had been ". to have been taken for a spy in Syria, to have endangered my life in Candia, for refusing to administer poison, to have been shot in Canea twice, and once on the Nile by Turkish soldiers, to have been accused of changing the fragments of a broken statue into gold at Thebes, to have been charged with sorcery in Nubia, and to have been captive with Greek pirates, for wearing a long beard, when taken in a vessel bearing Turkish property .". (Blackmer 1036; Tobler V/30; Rohricht 1707).Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
Price: US$639.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A complete two volume set, In the original half leather bindings with five raised gilt bands and marbled boards. Not rebacked or rebound. Each volume has two title labels although one label in the second volume is missing with the legible ghost of it being present. The hinges in volume 1 have been neatly strengthened. such that the binding in both is now tight and square. Neat name on the original front free endpapers. Colour engraving frontispiece in Volume 1. Africana. Hardback. No dj.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
Price: US$737.54 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xvi, 401; viii, 398; hand-coloured frontispiece (author in Syrian costume), contemporary green half calf, some wear to head and tail of spine, very good and clean. "The author compares his letters to those of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and discusses the difficulty of combining accurate observations with literary elegance: 'the refinement of her enthusiasm prevailed over the correctness of her descriptions'. Madden had trained as a surgeon, though he never practised in England, but because of this he was able to enter areas closed to most Europeans, mainly the harem and some slave bazaars. He travelled in the Levant from 1824-27. His work also contains much information on Egypt and Egyptology." Blackmer Blackmer 1056; not in Abbey
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.27 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, xvi, 401pp.1, 1adverts. viii, 398pp, 1adverts. aquatint coloured frontispiece of the Author in Syrian costume. 8vo. rebacked half calf marbled boards. occasional light foxing a Very Good Set.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1989.65 + shipping
Description: London: Henry Colburn 1829. 8vo. Orig. papered boards rebacked and with printed paper titling-labels on spines. With hand-col. engrv. frontispiece of the Author in his Syrian costume in Vol. 1. A fine uncut set of the 1st edition complete with half-title page to Vol. I and inscribed from the Publisher "With Mr. Colburn's Compts". Rare.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia