THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF EDWARD HENRY PALMER, Late Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Saint John’s College
London: John Murray, 1883. First edition. 8vo. ix, (2), 430 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the subject in Arabic dress, facsimiles. Palmer (1840-1882), an Orientalist by training, was killed in the Suez while on a mission for the British government. Inscribed on the front endpaper, “A. M. Charrington / from the..... More