[Rarebooks] FS: TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA, 1821, with Hand-Colored Plates

[Charles Agvent]

LYON, Captain G(eorge) F(rancis). A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN NORTHERN 
AFRICA, IN THE YEARS 1818, 19, AND 20; ACCOMPANIED BY GEOGRAPHICAL 
NOTICES OF SOUDAN, AND OF THE COURSE OF THE NIGER. With a chart of the 
routes, and a variety of coloured plates, illustrative of the costumes 
of the several natives of Northern Africa. London: John Murray, 1821. 
First Edition. Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") bound in full polished calf leather 
by Casa Calero Madrid with gilt-lettered spine with four raised bands, 
all edges marbled; xii, 382, [1] pages. Complete with large folding 
engraved map and 17 hand-colored lithographic plates after Lyon, by M. 
Gauci, G. Harley, or D. Dighton. Lyon, disguised as a Muslim, left 
Tripoli to discover the source of the Niger river. The hand-colored 
plates depict scenes and traditional Libyan clothes. ABBEY TRAVEL, 404. 
Title page and dedication page with dampstaining and restoration; plates 
with fine contemporary coloring, one with a closed tear to margin not 
affecting the image. Hinges starting, covers still firm; rubbing and 
fading to spine. Very Good. (#021505)        $1,500

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