SHAW (Thomas).
Travels, or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant.
LARGE PAPER COPY WITH THE SUPPLEMENT
An excellent copy of one of the landmark publications on North Africa and the Levant. Including the supplement in which Shaw replies to the criticisms and objections made by Richard Pococke in his Description of the East, published in 1743-45.
Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Cyprus and most of North Africa. This work is especially esteemed for its botanical and zoological plates, in addition to the information Shaw imparts on the antiquities, geology and geography of the areas he visited. The appendix includes catalogues of plants and animals of Barbary, Egypt and Arabia.
Blackmer 1533, 1534; Ashbee, A Bibliography of Tunisia, 1889, p. 60: “This is one of the most valuable works ever written on North Africa.”