[Rarebooks] FS: 1809 ACCOUNT OF THE EMPIRE OF MAROCCO with Maps & Plates

[Charles Agvent]

JACKSON, James Grey. AN ACCOUNT OF THE EMPIRE OF MAROCCO, AND THE 
DISTRICT OF SUSE. Compiled from Miscellaneous Observations Made During a 
Long Residence in, and Various Journeys Through, these Countries, to 
Which is Added an Account of Timbuctoo, the Great Emporium of Central 
Africa. London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1809. First 
Edition. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full early calf leather with 
blind-stamped borders to covers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped spine 
with five raised bands, all edges decorated; xvi, 287, [1] pages. 
Complete (despite "Vol. 12" on spine) with 11 (2 colored, 5 folding) 
aquatint plates and 2 folding copper engraved maps. Extensive travel 
description of the Kingdom of Morocco where Jackson resided for 16 years 
gathering information about trade and trade routes to Timbuktu and about 
the city itself. Covers geography, rivers, climate, mountains, culture, 
economy, zoology (especially snakes), metallurgy, mineralogy, 
population, Islam and languages, as well as the pandemic of 1799/1800. 
Bookplate on front pastedown of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, 1st 
Baronet (1761-1827), who from 1820 to 1827 was Governor of Madras. 
Slight offsetting from plates to text, otherwise quite clean and fresh; 
minor rubbing to joints. Near Fine. (#021504)        $1,500

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