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Dornbush, Miss; ed. Richard Tully (b. 1750) Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa.
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1816.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with 5 hand-colored plates (including frontispiece), and one folding map; ex libris the American Museum of Natural History with stamps to title page, the verso of each plate, and elsewhere; bound in full later buckram; foxing to contents, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
"The author's eye is particularly acute in describing Tripolitan society from the perspective of its female inhabitants, warranting the comparison in reviews to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travel letters. She visits the royal harem, attends ladies at their toilette, and details the differing customs among the Moorish, Christian, and Jewish inhabitants of the city. The text also records major events including an outbreak of plague (the Consul's family lived in quarantine from June 1785 to the end of July 1786) as well as the political machination undermining Ali Karamanli's reign by his sons, the Turkish invasion, and the rise of Yusuf Karamanli in 1793." (Quoted from Benjamin Colbert's article on Dornbush on the University of Wolverhampton's British Travel Writing page: https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/authors/1193)
