Algiers (inhabited place). Africa - Algeria - Alger. Longitude: 3.0000. Latitude: 36.8333.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letter of Thomas Carlyle to George Richardson on his impending journey to Algiers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12894
Dates:
1834.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Robert Playfair., 1873-1889.
File
Identifier: MS.40960
Scope and Contents
The letters are to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern mostly the preparation and publication of works by Robert Playfair in the “Murray’s Handbooks” series:Playfair’s revision of “A handbook for travellers in Algeria” (1874);“A handbook for travellers in Algeria and Tunis, Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Carthage, etc.” (1878 and subsequent editions);“A handbook to the Mediterranean” (1881 and subsequent editions).Among...
Dates:
1873-1889.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Robert Playfair., 1879-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.40961
Scope and Contents
The letters are to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern mostly the preparation and publication of works by Robert Playfair in the “Murray’s Handbooks” series:Playfair’s revision of “A handbook for travellers in Algeria” (1874);“A handbook for travellers in Algeria and Tunis, Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Carthage, etc.” (1878 and subsequent editions);“A handbook to the Mediterranean” (1881 and subsequent editions).The...
Dates:
1879-1899.
Printed maps of North Africa.
File
Identifier: Acc.11150
Scope and Contents
Used on a journey by Michael Strachan and J Enoch Powell between Algiers and Cairo in 1943, many containing notes by the Strachan on their progress.
Dates:
circa 1943.