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Keatinge, Colonel Maurice.
Travels through France and Spain to Morocco.
Publisher: Printed for Henry Colburn, London;
Date of Publication: 1817
Stock Code: 14278
Two volumes in one. Folio, pp., xv, [1], 346, [2], 274. With frontispiece portrait of the Author, and a further 33 sepia-aquatint plates, as called for. Contemporary mottled half calf on marbled boards, acanthus rolls and gilt fillets to boards, diced and ornamented in gilt and blind to spine, titled in gilt to leather spine-label. Bookplate of Peninsular War veteran Major-General Norcliffe Norcliffe (1791-1862) to front paste-down. Without the advertisement leaf to end. Some scuffs and shelf-wear to boards. Even toning to some leaves, occasional scattered foxing to plates largely confined to margins. A very good copy in an attractive contemporary binding. An account of the author’s travels as part of a 1785 British ambassadorial mission to Morocco, conducted under the consul-general George Payne, Esq. Provides a valuable account of a short-lived ‘European colony’ in Marrakesh, which included a Venetian acting as the sultan’s mercantile agent, a Prussian and two Spanish monks, a ‘Danish garden’, and a number of ‘old renegades’, including the Englishman Thomas Myers, who took the title El-Kaid Boazzer. Boazzer/Mears was a former English privateer who had been wrecked in Tangier Bay in 1745, and had settled in Marrakesh. £1250.00