LETTERS ON EGYPT, EDOM, AND THE HOLY LAND.
London: Henry Colburn, 1847. Fourth edition, revised and corrected (first published in 1838). Small 8vo. xii, 445 pp. Engraved frontispiece view of Gebel Serbal in the southern Sinai. Cairo, the Pyramids, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Suez, Akaba, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Jordan, Palmyra, and Damascus, among other places visited. Somewhat later black polished sheep (spine ends a little frayed, joints and corners rubbed), gilt, boards framed with a triple-gilt rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments and leather label between raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. Employed as a prize binding, with a full-page 1849 “first prize’ inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. Wanting the half-title, else very good. Item #67026
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