The Barbary Corsairs (1890, first edition)

With bookplate, siganture and damning comment by Frances Pierrepont Barnard

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. 20.5 × 14cm, xviii + 316pp.

With the bookplate and ownership signature of Frances Pierrepont Barnard, an archaeologist, numismatist, author, professor and headmaster. However, he didn't think too much of the book, recording in pencil to the rear pastedown "style grossly vulgar and clap-trap. Indeed, a perfect disgrace to a series of historical (!) works".

A history of the Barbary Corsairs, a group of pirates that operated out of the northern African ports of Salé, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli from the Sixteenth century through to when the last Corsairs were driven from the Barbary Coast by the events of the nineteenth century. Illustrated.

Condition

A fair reading copy. The pages have light spotted foxing, there are a few marginal annotations in pencil, and the inner binding has some movement. However, it remains a readable copy.