MADOX, John.
Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. Including a visit to the unfrequented district of the Haouran ...
London, Richard Bentley, 1834.
2 vols, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 436, with frontispiece and 15 plates; vii, [1], 403, [1], with frontispiece, 9 plates, and 1 illustration in the text; occasional foxing, especially to some plates, short tear to vol. 2 plate facing p. 292; overall good in recent half green morocco over green cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; a few Gloucester City Libraries stamps.
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Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. Including a visit to the unfrequented district of the Haouran ...
First edition. An ‘account of travels made between 1821 and 1826 ... Seven chapters contain incidents relating to the Greek war of independence ... He made three separate journeys to Egypt and Palestine between 1824 and 1826. The frontispieces are portraits of the author and Mehmet Ali. The plates include sites in Palestine, costumes and Egyptian wallpaintings’ (Blackmer).
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