Published by London, R. Ackermann, 1821 First Edition., 1821

 

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First Edition. Very good and complete in contemporary half leather binding. Gilt title on spine on raised black title label. Exquisite gilt decorations and bands on spine. Marbled boards, brown endpapers. Text and leaves unmarked. Complete with all its finely done colour plates, which comprise the following: Frontispiece of a Moor and Moorish woman, Engraved Title, Map of the country of the Moors (fold-out), A Chief of the Assounas, and the Moorish method of confining horses, A Moorish Chief and his Wife, A Moorish Adouar, or Camp, with the Tent of a Chief, A Moorish Princess going abroad on a Dromedary, A Talbe or Moorish Priest, Moors surprising a Negro Village, A Negro and a Moor belonging to a Gum Caravan, Grisgris, Water-bottle, and Pouch. 180 pages. The nineteen chapter titles are as follows: origin of the Moors, of the Monselemines and Moors dwelling in the Zahara, of the Moorish chiefs, the Adouar or camp, dress of the men, dress of the women, food and methods of cookery, character of the Moors, religion, of the women, marriage, education fo the children, funeral ceremonies, hospitality, theft, war and enslavement of prisoners, art and manufactures, the gum trade, hunting and amusements.AIRMAIL POSTAGE TAKES TWO WEEKS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Africana. Hardback. No dj. Bookseller Inventory # 56673