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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. 5th or later Edition. With twenty-three steel-engraved illustrations by the author including frontispiece showing: Mount Sinai. ***Good in gilt decorated blue cloth-covered boards, with black decorative bordered front board and spine. Gilt illustration of a camel and a Bedouin to the front board. Floral olive coloured front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Spine rubbed and faded. Edges Rubbed. Corners bumped. Head and tail of spine worn and frayed. Rear board creased, worn and slightly marked. Remnants of a white label to bottom of spine. Water mark to fore-edge of text-block not affecting interior pages or boards. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***172 mm x 118mm. 165 pages plus ten-page publisher's advertisement titles to the rear. ***Chapters: I. General Description of the Sinaitic Peninsula; II. The Western Coast of the Peninsula; III. The Route to Ophir; IV. The East Coast of the Sinaitic Peninsula; V. The Group of the Jebel Musa; VI. The Group of Mount Serbal; VII. The Desert of Jebel Tih, or of Arabia Petraea; VIII. Petra, The Nabathaen Capital. ***List of Illustrations: Mount Sinai; The Desert from Ayun Musa; Petra; Wilderness of Edom; Caravan on the Road to Mecca; The Written Valley; Travelling in the Desert; Wady Ithm; The Ras Sufsafeh and Plain of Er-Rahah; Wady-Ed-deir and Plain of Er-Rahah; Prior of the Convent of St. Catherine; Ikonomos of the Convent of St. Catherine; Mount Sinai; Jebel Serbal from Wady Feiran; Wady Feiran (Rephidim); Young Camel-Driver of Sinai; Group of Bedaween; Robbers in the Sinaitic Desert; Entrance to Petra; Rock-cut Tombs, Petra; The Khasneh, or Treasury, Petra; Mount Hor. ***An early edition [book originally published in 1879] - complete with all twenty three steel-engravings as called for. Hard to find. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.