ALGERIA; ITS TOPOGRAPHY, HISTORY, SOCIAL CONDITIONS, SLAVES, ETC, 1854.

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ALGERIA; ITS TOPOGRAPHY, HISTORY, SOCIAL CONDITIONS, SLAVES, ETC, 1854. Description Algeria: The Topography and History, Social and Natural, of French Africa. John Reynell Morell. London; Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. Dimensions; 219 by 141mm . Pages; 490. Excellent looking dark blue full leather binding with gilt spine and armorial on the covers (Glasgow Model & Training College), marbled page edges and endpapers. The binding is tidy and secure. Lacks the front marbled endpaper, the frontispiece and the map. Complete otherwise with no loss, text complete. Bright and tidy internally, some marking on the title page, ink signature at the top margin. Only minor marking to the pages, very tidy internally. With woodcuts in the text, and 11 sheets of plates. Contents include; African characteristics and mysteries, a survey of North Africa, its topography, Herodotus, France in Africa, the fall of Carthage- a warning for the ages, the Atlas chains, its towns and places, Algiers, the Bedouin tribes, orange groves of Blidah, the Arabs, antiquities, Oran, Constantina, Kabyles, Moors and Turks, Jews, the negroes, utility of slavery, Mahometan and Christian slavery, degraded state of the Niger Basin, European settlers, colonisation, the French army, the history of Algeria and Barbary from earliest times. UK standard parcels £5.30/First class recorded read more

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