A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1696 by Henry Maundrell, M.A. Also a journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again. Translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, by the right reverend Robert Clayton, Lord Bishop of Clogher.
A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1696 by Henry Maundrell, M.A. Also a journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again. Translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, by the right reverend Robert Clayton, Lord Bishop of Clogher.
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Edinburgh, John Ogle, 1812. 8vo (17.7 x 10.3 cm) 313, 12 pp., with one folded engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt patterned borders, gilt title and ornaments on spine. Original marbled flyleaves. = A simple but quite rare later edition of the original that appeared in 1703 and a classic voyage to the Middle East, especially in relation to the Holy Land. The folded frontispiece shows ancient monuments and inscriptions. Old armorial bookplate "Per acuta belli" (probably of a descendant of George, Lord Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel) on front paste-down. Two pp. list of books published by John Ogle bound in rear. Boards a bit scuffed with some paper cover loss, old signature on title-page and some foxing, otherwise a very nice copy. Cox 1, p. 214.
