MADDEN, R.R.
The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World: records of pilgrimages in many lands.
London, T. C. Newby, 1851.
Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886) was an Irish doctor and writer who became an active abolitionist in the first half of the nineteenth century. He travelled extensively and wrote almost continuously about the places he saw. He oversaw the liberation of the slave populations of Jamaica and Cuba in 1833 and 1835, and provided key evidence in the Amistad trial in New York, and in 1840 he conducted the commission in West Africa which found British merchants guilty of slave trafficking.
First edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 15 cm); additional engraved titles, 7 lithographed plates, prize inscriptions to first blanks, a little spotting to titles; full leather prize binding, gilt rolled borders to boards with gilt crest to upper boards, spines in six gilt compartments with contrasting green and red gilt morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, a touch of spotting to boards but otherwise a very good handsome set; xii, 652; [iv], 692pp.
Stock code 116522
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The Shrines and Sepulchres of the Old and New World:
DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:
c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
£15,000.00
