TULLY, RICHARD.

Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British consul Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction. Also, an account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks.

London, Henry Colburn, 1817. 4to. In a recent half calf pastische binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. First few leaves with soiling and a few small marginal tears, plates with a few brownspots. Small hole affecting p. 95/p. 96. A fine copy. xiii, (3), 376 pp. + 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates + 1 engraved folded map.

Second edition, containing "we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and it details such scenes and events, it gives such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, and intrigue, as will seem scarcely credible to the mind of an European." (From the preface).
This second edition contains an additional two plates compared to the first edition: that of a Bedouin peasant woman and her child, and that of a Cologee guard.

Atabey 1241
Tooley 494

Order-nr.: 54319