A bibliography of Algeria : from the expedition of Charles V in 1541 to 1887 / by R. Lambert Playfair.

  • Lambert Playfair
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1888
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    283. 1789. Poiret, L’abb6 J. L.—Voyage en Barbarie, ou lettres ecrites d’ancienne Numidie pendant 1785-86, sur la religion, les coutumes, et les meuis des Maurcs et des Arabes Bedouins, avec un essai sur I’histoire naturelle de ce pays. Paris: 2 vol. 8vo, pp. 363 and 315. An English translation, 2 vol. 12mo, was published in 1791, entitled ‘ Voyage to Barbary, or Letters written from Numidia (1785-86) on the Religion, Customs, and Manners of the Moors and Bedouin Arabs, with an Essay ou the Natural History of the Country.’ The author was a distinguished botanist, who travelled during a year in the vicinity of B6ne, La Calle and Constantine. 284. 1789. Pollie,—Histoire du Naufrage de Brisson, de Follie et de Saugnier sur les c6tes d’Al'rique. Paris: 8vo. 285. 1790 ? Nueva relacion y copia de una carta que escribio un hijo a su padre, en que le did d entender los tormentos que padecia en su cautiverio en la ciudad de Argel. In verse. Malaga : 4to. 286. 1790. Bruce, James.—Travels to discover the source of the Nile in 1768-1773. Edinburgh: maps and plates, 5 vol. 4to. This contains a notice of his explorations in Algeria and Tunis before starting for Sicily, Baalbcc (pp. 530), Palmyra, and subsequently^Egypt. A French translation published in Paris, translated by J. Castera in 1^90—91. 287, 1791. Edrisii Africa, curavit J. H. Hartmann. Gottingm: 8vo; 2nd edition, 8vo, 1796. 288. 1791. Bruns, Paul Jacob.—Neue Systematique Erdbeschreibung von Africa. Frankfurt: 1791-9, 6 vol. 8vo. Another edition published at Nurem- berg, 1793. 289. 1791. Abulfedae Africa, Arabice et Latine, curante Godofredus Eichhorn. Gottingse: 8vo. 290. 1794. A Short Account of Algiers, and of its several Wars . . . with a concise account of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. Philadelphia: 8vo, pp. 50. Chap. V. explains U.S. interests as to Algiers: formerly its vessels were pretty safe from piratical attacks, because Dutch or Portuguese war ve^cls watched the Straits and kept the corsairs out of the Atlantic, but now ‘ ly the officious intervention of England” a “ truce between Algiers and Portugal has been formed” which “has been done , ,. .^that the corsairs . . . might interrupt the commerce of this country ” [the U.S.]. 290a. 1794- Ebn Abd-el-Halim, Saleh.—Geschichte der Mauritamschen Koenif^e. Translated from the Arabic into German by Fr. de Bombay. Agrain: 2 vol.°8vo. A Spanish translation by F. Jose de Santo Antonio Moura, pub- lished at Lisbon, 1828 : 1 vol. 4to. 291. 1797. The Algerine Captive, or the life and adventures of Doctor Upilike Underhill’, six years a prisoner among the Algerines. Walpole, New Hampshire: 2 vol. 12mo, 214 and 241. The first 200 pp. of the second vol. devoted to Algiers. 292 1798 Sacy, Sylvestre de.—De quelques monnaies arabes, et des nion- naies de Tunis, d’Alger et de Maroc. Article in the ‘Magasin encyclopedique, 1798, tome iii. 293. 1798. Rehbinder, J. Ad. Prhn. von, Danish Consul at richten und Bemerkungen iibcr den Algienschen Staat. Altona: li9S-18C0, 2 vol. 8vo, with maps aud plates. Another edition in 1800.