An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa, territories in the interior of Africa. to which is added letters descriptive of travels through West and South Barbary, and across the mountains of Atlas. Also fragments, notes, and anecdotes, specimens of the Arabic epistolary style, &c. &c.

Shabeeny, El Hage Abd Salam & Jackson, James Grey.

Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., LONDON, 1820

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8vo, xxx, 547 pp, [advert] complete with the two engraved folding maps. [light spotting] later quarter calf over marbled boards.[James Jackson an English merchant resident for some years in Morocco, traveled extensively through the country crossed the southern Atlas Mountains and joined the caravans to the fabled gold of Timbuktu on the Niger. He failed to reach Timbuktu, but provided an accurate and detailed itinerary of the route to it & described the city and its prospects]. A Good Copy. Seller Inventory # 1701

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Title: An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa, ...

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., LONDON

Publication Date: 1820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good