Travels along the Mediterranean, and parts adjacent;
in company with the Earl of Belmore, during the years 1816-17-18: extending as far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec, &c. &c.
Stock Code 103697
London, Cadell, 1822
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Richardson was travelling physician to the Earl of Belmore, whose party spent two years in the Mediterranean, mainly in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Richardson met Salt, Burckhardt, the Belzonis, Irby and Mangles, Legh and other travellers of this period. The plates illustrate sections of Egyptian tomb paintings. Volume I covers the journey from Alexandria to Cairo via the Nile, onto the Pyramids, Dendera, Thebes, Edfu, the Second Cataract and return. Volume II covers the journey from Cairo to Jerusalem, Damascus, Lebanon and Malta.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xiv, [i], 536; v, [iv], 527, [i] pp., six lithographic plates, one hand-coloured (short tear), 2 folding plans (slightly foxed), contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, morocco labels (defective but legible), short splits to joints but firm, chip to top of joint vol. II, rubbed.
Blackmer 1416; Tobler 145; Rohricht 1666; Weber I, 118; Wilbour 623; Hilmy II, 172.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xiv, [i], 536; v, [iv], 527, [i] pp., six lithographic plates, one hand-coloured (short tear), 2 folding plans (slightly foxed), contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, morocco labels (defective but legible), short splits to joints but firm, chip to top of joint vol. II, rubbed.
Blackmer 1416; Tobler 145; Rohricht 1666; Weber I, 118; Wilbour 623; Hilmy II, 172.
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