MAUGHAN, William Charles.
The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land ...
London, Henry S. King, 1873.
8vo, pp. xvi, 374, 36 (publisher’s catalogue dated November 1873); with ‘map of author’s route’ facing title; a little foxing to half-title and fore-edge; very good in original brown decorative cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt and blocked in black, dark green endpapers; rebacked with spine laid down (a few small areas of loss), a little wear to corners; old ink stamp to half-title.
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The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land ...
First edition, relating Maughan’s travels to Cairo, the Pyramids, the Nile, Sinai, Aqaba, Petra, Hebron, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baalbek, and Beirut. Maughan (1836-1914) worked as a banker in Edinburgh, London, and Rome. ‘An illness having caused a break in the continuity of my business career,’ he writes, ‘I thought that a tour in the East would be a pleasant and profitable mode of passing a portion of my time. Accordingly I started on these travels, and can cordially recommend my readers to follow my example’ (p. vi).
