TULLY, (MISS) - (RICHARD THULLY).

Letters written during a ten Year's Residence at the Court of Tripoli, published from the Originals in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully...Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashew, his Family, and other Persons of Distinction; also an Account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. Third Edition. 2 vols.

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. boards, orig. printed titlelabels on backs. Some tears to the rather fragile backs. XVI,375;(4),396 pp., 1 folded engraved map and 7 hand coloured aquatint-plates. Offsetting from a few plates, otherwise clean.

Abbey No 301. Lowndes p. 2718 as well as Tooley (No 493) attributes the work to Richard Tully. The first edition issued in 4to in 1816 in 1 volume having only 5 plates. 2 more plates were done for the second edition in 8vo from 1817. The third edition comprising these additional plates.

Order-nr.: 28424