SEGUIN, L.G. Walks in Algiers and Its Surroundings.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. New edition.
8vo., orig. red pictorial cloth, xii, 498, 32pp. ads.
Bookplate, spine faded, some soiling but certainly a very good copy.
An account of the authors extensive wanderings in an about Algiers. She includes information on Algiers as a winter residence; the native inhabitants; christian slavery in Algiers; the French in Algiers; the markets; the Jewish quarter; weddings; with additional information on the surrounding area. An interesting book. Written by Mrs. Lisabeth Gooch Strahan under the name "L.G. Seguin" this work was first published in 1878. She "describes as well and observes as closely as Mrs. Ameila Edwards." $200 CAD