Russell, Michael.

History and Present Condition of The Barbary States: Comprehending a View of Their Civil Institutions, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, Commerce, Agriculture, and Natural Productions. With a Map, and Eleven Engravings by Jackson.

Edinburgh / London, Oliver & Boyd / Simkin, Marshall, & Co., 1835. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 453 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with spine label. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps at corner of boards. Name and address of preowner entered in ink on endpaper (1948).

Includes, for example, the following: Constitution, Commerce, and Navigation of the Phoenican Colonies on the Coast of Barbary / Some Resemblance to Roman Consuls and Hebrew Judges / Accesion of Justinian / Arrival of the Saracens/ Worship of Melcath, Astarte, and Baal / The Invasion of the Moslem / The Cyrenaica and Pentapolis / Tripoli / Tunis and its Dependencies / Empire of Morocco / The Regency of Algiers etc.

Michael Russell (12 August 1781 – 2 April 1848) was the first Episcopal Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1837 to his death in 1848. He was also a prolific author. He was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana and the British Critic, and he was for some time editor of the Scottish Episcopal Review and Magazine. To the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he contributed volumes on Palestine, 1831, Ancient and Modern Egypt, 1831, Nubia and Abyssinia, 1833, The Barbary States, 1835, Polynesia, 1842, and Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles, 1850 (Wikipedia)

The Edinburgh Cabinet Library was a series of 38 books, mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner. Lardner, a science professor, was also responsible for the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia (also known as Lardner’s Cyclopaedia) that covered a wide range of subects – what Lardner called ‘cabinets’ – with contributions from some leading British scholars. During the first quarter of the 19th century, self-improvement literature became an important portion of the book market and this series was designed to capitalise on the “encyclopedia craze” of the growing middle-class of this period. (‘Mary Shelley’s Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientifc Men,’ at the University of Saskatchewan Library’s Digital Reserach Centre website)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120017AB

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