over 250 photographic plates throughout the text
very handsomely bound in full maroon calf by Bayntun's of Bath
After the war he spent seven years in the Sahara desert
Original green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine
Memoir descriptive of the resources, inhabitants, and hydrography of Sicily colonisation over 250 photographic plates throughoutand its islands, interspersed with antiquarian and other notices London: John Murray, 1824. Dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and intended to accompany the atlas of Sicily, published at their office. Captain Smyth fellow of the Astronomical and Antiquarian Societies of London. Quarto. pp xvi, 291, lxxiii, [1[, [15]. Folding map of Sicily at the front and fourteen aquatint plates. Half title present. Bound in later