COWPER, Henry Swainson.
The hill of the graces. A record of investigation among the trilithons and megalithic sites of Tripoli ... With ninety-eight illustrations and a map.
London, Methuen & Co., ‘1897’ [c. 1901].
8vo, pp. xxii, [2], 327, [1], 48 (publisher’s catalogue, November 1901); with photographic frontispiece, 2 plans (1 folding), large folding map, and numerous photographic and engraved illustrations in the text; a little foxing to endpapers and fore-edges; very good in original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover; very slight wear to extremities.
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The hill of the graces. A record of investigation among the trilithons and megalithic sites of Tripoli ... With ninety-eight illustrations and a map.
First edition, later issue, a nice copy. Cowper (1865-1941) travelled through Mesopotamia, Egypt, Tripoli, and Asia Minor. ‘The “Hill of Graces” is principally the result of investigations carried on in Tripoli during two visits to that country ... During the spring months of 1895 and 1896, I made two short journeys through the districts called Gharian, Tarhuna, and M’salata ... to gain some information concerning the ancient megalithic ruins, which were known to exist in the hill range, and which ... the figures and plans in the following pages will show to be far more novel in character ... than has been hitherto suspected’ (p. ix).
