THE HISTORY OF SPAIN, FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE COLONY OF GADES, BY THE PHOENICIANS; TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INDEPEND

Pp. 449, 483 + Folding hand-coloured copper engraved map of Europe. Original full calf gilt. Marbled edges.The most ancient Phoenician colonies were Utica, nearly on the northern most point of the coast of Africa, and in the same gulf, (now known as the Gulf of Tunis) as Carthage, over to Cape Lilybaeum in Sicily, - and Gades, or Gadeira, now Cadiz on the south-western coast of Spain. No other edition of this work found. Very rare.