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Bovet, Felix

Egypt, Palestine and Phoenicia; a Visit to Sacred Lands

1883

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Year of publication
1883
Place of printing
New York. E. P. Dutton and Company
Author
Bovet, Felix
Keyword
Travel - Asia Middle East
Languages
English

Description

8vo [20 x 14 cm]; x, 416 pp, 2 detailed folding colored maps including frontis with tissue guard, index. original green pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded in part, quite clean, near fine, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author travelled from Marseilles to Malta and to Alexandria, through Egypt to Judea where he visited Jerusalem, described in some detail, Jericho, Dead Sea, Mar Saba, Bethlehem, through Galilee, Tiberias to Tyre, Sidon and Beyrout. He provides an appendix on Hezekiah's Pool and on the Dead Sea. This edition includes a biographical sketch of the author by professor F. Godet.

Edizione: first american edition, translated from the eighth french edition by w. h. lyttelton.
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