BARTLETT, William Henry.
Forty days in the desert, on the track of the Israelites; or, a journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra ...
London, Arthur Hall & Co., [1848].
8vo, pp. [2], 206, [8 (publisher’s ads)]; with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, a folding map, 25 plates, and several illustrations in the text; a little marginal browning and foxing to plates and map; overall very good in original pale green cloth by Westleys & Co., London, spine and covers decorated in gilt in oriental style; upper joint split (holding), some wear to extremities, mark to lower cover; inscription ‘Mrs Scott 8th Novr 1848’, a few MS notes regarding the author, and armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Longmore (1816-1895, military surgeon) to front endpapers.
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Forty days in the desert, on the track of the Israelites; or, a journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra ...
First edition, by the topographical artist W.H. Bartlett (1809-1854). ‘An account of Bartlett’s fourth journey to the Levant when he visited Egypt, Mount Sinai and Syria from August to October 1845’; ‘three editions had appeared by 1849’ (Blackmer). ‘The special objections which may, perhaps, excuse the addition of the present volume on the subject to the multitude which have already appeared are – the desire to give somewhat more of distinctness to the route of the Israelites than is to be found in the work of Laborde; to depict, though but imperfectly, the valley of Feiran, and the neighbouring mountain of the Serbal, not only the most romantic spot in the Arabian peninsula, but confidently pronounced by no less a savant than Dr Lepsius to be the real Sinai; as also to give a picture of Petra, that extraordinary rock-hewn capital of Edom’ (p. iv).
cf. Blackmer 92 (5th ed.).
