A narrative of travels in northern Africa : in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan, and of the course of the Niger. With a chart of the routes, and ... plates, illustrative of the costumes of the several natives of northern Africa,. by Captain G. F. Lyon, ...
Captain George Francis Lyon (1795-1832)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3229644
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 383, [1] p., plates : col. ill., fold. map ; 4to. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case G [or 6?]. Shelf 4. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book]. Binding: nineteenth-century grained calf; gilt and blind roll borders. Poor condition; spine destroyed.
Makers and roles
Captain George Francis Lyon (1795-1832)