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BONAR, Horatius.

The Desert of Sinai:

Notes on a Spring-journey from Cairo to Beersheba.

Stock Code
103622
London, Nisbet, 1858
£650

Scarce; the preferred second edition. A trek through the Sinai on a camel with observations on the notable ruins of Egypt.

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Description

Second (first illustrated) edition, 8vo, viii, 424 pp., large folding maps (tears to folds), 3 wood-engraved plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, a very good copy.

Bibliography

Blackmer 161 (this edition); Hilmy, I, 80.

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