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"IT HAS BEEN MY FATE TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN FOR A SPY IN SYRIA… TO HAVE BEEN SHOT AT ONCE ON THE NILE… TO HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH SORCERY IN NUBIA"

MADDEN, Richard Robert. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine. London, 1829. Two volumes.

First edition of this entertaining and insightful epistolary travel narrative, rare with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece portrait of the author in Syrian dress, in contemporary calf covers. $2000.

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“INFINITELY MORE AMUSING THAN MANY A LETTER BOOK”

MADDEN, R.R. Literary Life and Correspondence of The Countess of Blessington. London, 1855. Three volumes.

First edition of Madden’s biography of the celebrated beauty and prolific woman of letters, with four engraved plates (including frontispiece portraits of Lady Blessington and the Count D’Orsay by R.J. Lane) on India paper and mounted, handsomely bound. $750.

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