Maurice. Travels Through France And Spain To Morocco ... comprising a Narrative of the Author's Residence in that Empire. With an Account of the British Embassy to the Court of Morocco under the Late

by KEATINGE

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KEATINGE, Maurice. Travels Through France And Spain To Morocco ... comprising a Narrative of the Author's Residence in that Empire. With an Account of the British Embassy to the Court of Morocco under the Late George Payne. Esq. Consul-General. To which is added a Second Journey through France in 1814. London: Henry Colburn. 1817. Two volumes in one (as issued), 4to. Modern half-calf over cloth boards, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt; pp. xv, 346; [ii], 274, engraved portrait-frontispiece (foxed), 33 plates in sepia aquatint after the author; light offsetting from plates, these occasionally a little spotted, otherwise a good copy of a scarce work. First issued the year before under the title Travels in Europe and Africa comprising a Journey through France, Spain and Portugal to Morocco , this is the re-issue of the first printing sheets under a slightly altered title. 'The portions relating to Morocco - Mogador to Merakish, and up the coast to Tangier, the regular route of the embassies, one of which (Mr. Payne's) Col. Keatinge accompanied - are in vol. i. pp. 175-346 and in vol. ii. Pp. 1-54. The journey was made years previously in 1785, but though the book is diffuse it is valuable for the account it gives of Mowlai Abdalla, of whom a most repulsive portrait serves as frontispiece. At the time of Keatinge's visit to Merakish there seemed to have been, what is not the case now, quite a little European colony there - including a Venetian who was the Sultan's mercan

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