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Buckingham, James Silk.

Travels among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine.

London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, - 1825.,

4500,00 €

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Autore
Buckingham, James Silk.
Editori
London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green,, 1825.
Soggetto
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

4to. XV, (1), 669, (1) pp. With a folding engraved map and 28 wood-engraved vignettes as chapter headings. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. First edition. James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), founder of the Calcutta Journal, Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, The Sphynx, and The Argus, social reformer and founding member of the British and Foreign Institute, travelled in the Middle East as a sea captain and merchant. This work relates the part of his travels which took him through Nazareth, the plains of the Hauran, Damascus, Tripoli, Lebanon and Balbec to Aleppo. An appendix refutes the charges of plagiarism brought by Burckhardt and Bankes against his Travels in Palestine. - Occasional light foxing and staining, slight offsetting from the engraved map to the titled. A very good copy. - Blackmer 232. Tobler 143. R hricht 1650. Howgego II, B69, p. 78.
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