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Livres anciens et modernes

Field, Henry M.

On the Desert: A Narrative of Travel from Egypt throughout the Wilderness of Sinai to Palestine

1888

95,88 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1888
Lieu d'édition
London. T. Nelson and Sons
Auteur
Field, Henry M.
Thème
Travel - Asia Middle East
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo [21 x 14 cm]; vi, [ii], 9-276 pp, map of Sinai, complete with frontis, 15 plates, including portraits and views. original pictorial cloth, gilt picture of camel and Bedouin, gilt spine vignette, gilt spine & cover title lettering, very slight edge rubbing but clean and fine with inscription from 'Uncle Field', possibly author, dated Boston 1893. A picture of this bo The author took notes on the spot as he travelled through the Sinai desert including to Mount Sinai, to Nukhl, Gaza, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Jerusalem, etc. Smith F18. 'There is not an uninteresting chapter in the book. It is entertaining throughout' [New York Herald].

Edizione: author's edition.