including a journey from Nazareth to the mountains beyond the Dead Sea, and from thence through the plains if the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and by the valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo. With an appendix containing a refutation of certain unfounded calumnies industriously circulated against the author of this work.
Longmans, London, 1825
Buckingham travelled overland from Egypt to India in 1816 and 1817 via Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia. This work describes the portion of his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and also contains an appendix refuting charges of plagiarism which were levelled against his earlier work on Palestine.
First edition, 4to, xvi, 670 pp., folding map (lightly foxed), 28 vignettes, offsetting from map to title as usual, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neat repairs to joints, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
Blackmer 232.
First edition, 4to, xvi, 670 pp., folding map (lightly foxed), 28 vignettes, offsetting from map to title as usual, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neat repairs to joints, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
Blackmer 232.
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