A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697

Author: [Holy Land Travel] Maundrell, Henry
Title: A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697
Publication: Oxford: Printed at the Theatre for W. Meadows, Bookseller, 1749
Edition: Seventh Edition

Description: 8vo, [12], 172pp. Index. Complete with 15 copper engraved plates (9 folding) and several in-text drawings, publisher's copper-engraved vignette on title. Contemporary speckled calf, red spine label. Joints cracked but holding, boards rubbed. Bookplate of the Rev. George Scurfield, A.M. to front pastedown else clean internally and very good.

Nice, contemporary binding on this seventh edition of Maundrell's classic early English account of travels in the Holy Land, originally published in 1703. Based on his 1697 journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, it became one of the standard eighteenth-century travel narratives of the Levant, and included valuable information on biblical sites, ancient monuments, and geography.

Seller ID: 10083

Subject: Early Printing, Maps, Religion and Spirituality, World History

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