LABORDE, Léon de.
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the Edom of the prophecies ...
London, John Murray, 1836.
8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 331, [1]; with folding map, 25 lithographed and engraved plates, and numerous illustrations in the text; foxing to map and offsetting to p. 1, some foxing and light damp staining to plates; overall good in contemporary black roan, spine decorated in blind with gilt filleting and lettering-piece; joints and corners rubbed; ink inscription ‘J. Field 1838’ to front free endpaper, occasional near contemporary pencil marginalia and marks.
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Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the Edom of the prophecies ...
First English edition of Laborde’s Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée (1830). ‘Laborde travelled with the well-known Linant de Bellefonds, who at that time was in service with Mehmet Ali as an hydraulic engineer. They set out from Cairo in February 1828, where Laborde had established himself after his long journey in Asia Minor and Syria (1826-7), and made their way to Petra via Suez and Mt Sinai. Both Burckhardt and Irby and Mangles had explored Petra before Laborde, but Laborde was the first to be able to make plans, views and maps of the area. An important work. The plates are after drawings by both Linant de Bellefonds and Laborde’ (Blackmer).
cf. Blackmer 929.
