79/2197 [Africa]. Shaw, T. Reizen en Aanmerkingen, Door en Over Barbaryen en het Ooste (...). Uit het Engelsch vertaald door P. Boddaert (...) met Aanteekeningen van den Vertaler S. Rau, M. Tydeman, C. Saxe. Utr., J. van Schoonhoven en Comp., 1773 [= Amst., De Compagnie, 1780 (vol.1)], 3 parts in 2 vols., (2),XXXI,(9),XXXIII-XXXVI,365,(1); (6),224; 144,(32)p., 2 ident. engr. title-pages, 15 (fold.) maps, 1 fold. view (of Algiers), 24 (fold.) plates, 5 large vignettes and 5 initials, ills., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf w. 2 contrasting letterpieces, 4to.

- A few plates w. sm. tears along fold. Backstrips sl. worn.

= Tiele 1001; Cox I, p.377; Nissen, ZBI 3841. Both vols. with title of the first Dutch edition of 1773, but with collation of the ed. Amst., 1780. The first (English) edition was published in 1738, four years after Shaw's return from Africa. Howgego S92: "English scholar, natural historian and traveller (1692-1751). (...) After receiving holy orders, Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English factory in Algiers. He held the post for twelve years, then travelled for three years across North Africa, passing through Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and continuing into Palestine and Syria."