Author: MAUNDRELL, HENRY:
Title: A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. At Easter AD 1697. The Fourth Edition, to which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Oxford, printed at the Theatre, 1721.
Description: . Pp. (xii), 145, (7), 10. With engraved title-vignette and 15 engraved plates. Contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, hinges cracked. With old ownership inscriptions. Bookplate. Henry Maundrell was the chaplain of the Levant Company in Aleppo from 1696 to 1701. A popular narrative of a journey to Palestine containing accurate descriptions of Baalbec and Palmyra including nice illustrations. First published in 1703. This edition is enlarged and has 6 more plates than in the previous editions. Atabey 784. Blackmer 1095. Cox i, p.119. Lowndes iii, 1519. Tobler 116-17.

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