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A Journey to Mequinez by John Windus is an early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720.
A Journey to Mequinez by John Windus is an early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720.
A Journey to Mequinez by John Windus is an early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720.
A Journey to Mequinez by John Windus is an early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720.

WINDUS, John.

A Journey to Mequinez; the residence of the present emperor of Fez and Morocco. On the occasion of Commodore Stewart's embassy thither for the redemption of the British captives in the year 1721.

London, Tonson, 1725.

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An early and important English account of Morocco.

Windus was the historian the embassy dispatched by George I in 1720, under Commodore Charles Stewart, to treat for a peace with the emperor of Morocco. The squadron sailed on 24 Sept. 1720, and in the following May a conference was held between the ambassador's party and the Basha Hamet Ben Ali Ben Abdallah at Tetuan. A treaty of peace, by which piracy was prohibited and the English prisoners released, was signed at Ceuta in January 1721, and Windus thereupon returned to England in Stewart's flagship, the Dover. Windus utilised the four months he spent on land in 'Barbary' to collect materials for an account of the Moors, and in 1725, with a dedication to 'James, earl of Berkley, vice-admiral of England.'

First edition; 8vo, [xxxii], 251, [x]pp., 5 folding plates, folding plan; later full speckled panelled calf, spine in six gilt compartments with gilt lettering piece, all edges red, a very good copy.

Gay 1294; Playfair, 342.

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A Journey to Mequinez by John Windus is an early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720.

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