Travels in Tunisia: With a Glossary, a Map, a Bibliography, and Fifty IllustrationsDulau & Company, 1887 - 295 pages |
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TRAVELS IN TUNISIA W/A GLOSSAR Henry Spencer Ashbee,Alexander F. R. I. B. a. Graham No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 227 - CARTHAGE. Carthage and her Remains : being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa and other adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government. By Dr. DAVIS, FRGS Profusely Illustrated with Maps, Woodcuts, Chromo-Lithographs, &c.
Page 204 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 225 - Essai historique et critique sur les Monnaies d'Argent de la ligue achéenne, accompagné de recherches sur les monnaies de Corinthe, de Sicyone et de Carthage, qui ont eu cours pour le service de cette confédération, Paris, 1825. 410., 5 illustrations. CRAPELET, AMABLE: Voyage à Tunis en 1859, in 'Tour du Monde,
Page 220 - Ruins of Ancient Cities ; with general and particular Accounts of their Rise, Fall, and present Condition.
Page 242 - Louis, par Jehan, sire de Joinville. Les annales de son règne, par Guillaume de Nangis. Sa vie et ses miracles, par le confesseur de la reine Marguerite. Le tout publié d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, et accompagné d'un glossaire (par J.-B.
Page 244 - L'Expansion coloniale de la France. Etude économique, politique et géographique sur les établissements français d'outre-mer. 1 fort vol.
Page 210 - Bibliographie d'ouvrages ayant trait à l'Afrique en général dans ses rapports avec l'exploration et la civilisation de ces contrées, depuis le commencement de l'imprimerie jusqu'à nos jours (Propriété de l'auteur, Bruxelles ; Imprimerie Bauvais, Schaerbeek, 1887, in-8°, XV + 176 p.).
Page 140 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 81 - ... structures at Spaitla, Cassereen, and Hydrah, it seems to have been built near the time of the Antonines, corresponding exactly, in proportion and style, with the architecture of that age. And as the elder Gordian was proclaimed emperor at this city, it is not impossible that, in gratitude to the place where he received the purple, he might have been the founder of it. Upon one of the medals of the younger Gordian is an amphitheatre, not accounted for by medallists.
Page 283 - Carte de l'Algérie dressée au dépôt général de la guerre sous la direction de M. le lieut.