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First impression of the true first edition. ***Illustrated with seven folding colour maps and four black and white woodcuts in the text, as called for. ***Maps: I. Diagram of the Heights of Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine (frontispiece); II. Egypt; III. Peninsula of Sinai; IV. Traditional Sinai; V. Palestine; VI.South of Palestine; VII. Plain of Esdraelon and Galilee. Woodcuts: Sketch-map of Syria; Sketch-map of Jerusalem; Sketch-map of Shechem; Sketch-map of House at Nazareth and at Loretto [in the reference to the plan of Loretto, figures 2 and 3 must be transposed]. ***Very good in original, contemporary half leather binding, cloth-covered brown boards with leather spine and corners. Colour marbled front and rear free endpapers. All edges of text-block colour-marbled. Six compartments to the spine with five raised bands and gilt titles to second compartment. Contemporaneous owner's name in very faint soft pencil to top of the front free endpaper: 'H. B Worbly'. Edges and corners of boards rubbed. Edges and raised compartment edges of spine rubbed. Spine tight. ***LV prelim-pages including contents, detailed preface and list of illustrations to the fore plus 535 pages including extensive Appendixes including vocabulary, one-page Errata, &c., index to rear. 224 x 144 mm. ***Contents: Advertisement; Preface: Connection of Sacred History and Sacred Geography; Introduction: Egypt in relation to Israel; Chapters: I. Part I. Peninsula of Sinai, Part II. Extracts from Journals; II. Palestine; III. Judea and Jerusalem; IV.The Heights and the Passes of Benjamin; V. Ephraim; VI. The Maritime Plain; VII. The Jordan and the Dead Sea; VIII. Perea and The Trans-Jordanic Tribes; IX. Plain of Esdraelon; X. Galilee; XI. The Lake of the Merom and the Sources of The Jordan; XII. Lebanon, Damascus; XIII. The Gospel History and Teaching viewed in connection to the localities of Palestine; XIV. The Holy Places. Appendix: Vocabulary of Hebrew Topographical Words; Index. ***'What is personal in this book may be briefly told. In the winter of 1852, and in the Spring of 1853, in the company of three friends----I visited the well-known scenes of Sacred History in Egypt, Arabia, Syria. ---***----Much has been written, and still remains to be written, both on the History and the Geography of the Chosen People. But there have been comparatively few attempts to illustrate the relation in which each stands to the other----***The Maps have been framed with the intention of giving not merely the physical features, but the actual colouring offered to the eye of the traveller at the present time [Quote from the advertisement by the author to the fore). ***First impression of the true first edition in complete, original, solid condition, and with all seven folding delicately coloured maps. Very small tear to folding edge of first map, otherwise all seven folding colour maps in fine bright condition. ***An uncommon first edition title, particularly hard to find in an original binding, with nice marbled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns and matching marbled page edges, and with all maps and plans in complete, collectable condition. ***Of interest to scholars and collectors of rare antiquarian travel fist edition about the middle-East, Syria, Arabia, Egypt and the history and geography and relation to the Old and New testaments, and to collectors of antiquarian maps. ***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. Seller Inventory # 4715
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Title: SINAI AND PALESTINE in connection with their...
Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London
Publication Date: 1856
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
Edition: First Edition
