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On a raft, and through the desert:

the narrative of an artist's journey through northern Syria and Kurdistan, by the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad, and of a return Journey across the desert by the Euphrates and Palmyra to Damascus, over the anti-Lebanon to Baalbek and to Beyrout.

Stock Code 112289

London, Field & Tuer, 1881

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In 1879 Tristram Ellis (1844-1922), a successful watercolour artist, boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. Ellis succeeded in travelling from the Syrian coast, overland to Diyarbakır in south-east Turkey and then by raft down the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad in Iraq. From Baghdad, Ellis travelled overland to Palmyra and Damascus in Syria and thence to Beirut.

First edition. 2 volumes, 4to, [iv], ii, [iv], 122 [ii](ads); [viii], 128, [ii](ads) pp., map and 38 etchings by the author, original parchment gilt, red roundel to upper cover, a little soiled, some small stains to covers, a good copy.

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On a raft, and through the desert:

ELLIS, Tristram.

Stock code: 112289

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