BURNLEY, James.

Biskra and the desert: a record of a tour in Algeria in the year 1885.

Bradford, ‘privately printed’, [1906].

8vo, pp. 107, [1]; with two frontispiece portraits showing the author and his wife Marie in 1885, and 43 photographic plates; very light foxing to endpapers; a very good, crisp copy in original pebbled cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt; slight wear to spine and extremities.

£50

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First edition of this diary of a tour in Algeria undertaken by James and Marie Burnley in the spring of 1885, encompassing Algiers, Béjaïa, El Kantara, Biskra, Sidi Okba, and Constantine, as well as Marseille and Nîmes on the return journey, illustrated throughout with attractive photographs.

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