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Author: Hooker, Joseph Dalton and John Ball
Title: Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas
Place Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1878
Description:

xvi, 499 + 39 ad pp. With fold-out panoramic frontispiece and 7 other plates including a foldout geological section, with numerous woodcuts, and fold-out map. (8vo) original gold cloth with black and gilt decorations, gilt spine. First Edition.

"This journey was undertaken in 1871, and the account of its botany and geology is one of the most important works that has been written on the country." (Playfair). Neate H109. Playfair 1275.

Some wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities; perforated library stamp to front flyleaf, miniscule closed tears to bottom edge of first few pages, scattered light foxing affecting some plates, foxing and some tape repairs to fold-out map; very good.