Skinner, [Thomas]. Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land.

Name: Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land. - Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg.
SKU: bn29777
Price: 1500.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

London, Richard Bentley, 1836.

8vo. 2 vols. XI, (1), 324 pp. XI, (1), 291, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces (portrait and view of the Lake of Tiberias). Contemporary calf with triple giltstamped cover fillets and blindstamped ornamental borders, leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt, spines rebacked to style with giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.

€ 1.500,00

First edition.

An account of a journey made in 1833 through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia (Baghdad, Babylon and Basrah), Persia, down the Arabian Gulf (stopping at Muscat, "the hottest place on earth") and thence to India.

Corners bumped; frontispieces foxed. Attractively bound copy; armorial bookplates ("Gadsden", motto "decrevi") to pastedowns; contemporary ownership "C. J. Wilton" to flyleaf.

Literatur

Blackmer 1547. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 237. Röhricht 1808. OCLC 4255403. Cf. Atabey 1142 (1837 second ed.).

Art.-Nr.: BN#29777 Schlagwörter: Ägypten, Geographie und Reise, Irak & Mesopotamien, Islamic World, Palästina

Skinner, [Thomas]. Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land.

Ähnlich

Belon, Pierre. Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvées …Paris, 1555.

Lucas, Paul. Voyage [...], fait en M.DCCXIV, &c. par ordre de Louis XIV. dans la …Amsterdam, 1720.

Sionita, Gabriel. Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri …Amsterdam, 1633.

Niebuhr, Carsten. Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen.Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1776-1780.