Author: LABORDE, LÉON EMANUEL SIMON JOSEPH DE:
Title: Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. London J. Murray, 1836.
Description: . Pp. xxxviii, 331, (1). With one folding engraved map, 26 engraved plates and more textual illustrations. Frontispiece and a few more plates with some foxing. Contemporary half red morocco, g.e. First English edition of Leon de Laborde's narrative which was first published in Paris in 1830. This translation is enlarged with two additional chapters; one about the ancient Idumea and the other containing a summary of the remarks made upon Petra by the travellers who had preceded Léon de Laborde and Louis de Linant. Lowndes 1294. Cf Tobler p. 150.

Keywords: Near East, holy land, arabia, arabic, petra, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, travels, voyage, exploration, east, eastern, oriental,


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