Sinai and Palestine; In Connection with Their History

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn

Verlag: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1875

8vo. [3], iv-lviii, [3], 4-560, [2] pp. Contemporary brown pebbled leather; prize binding with a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering and decorations on the spine, gold tooling to the boards' edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece map and six additional maps, some fold-out, some full-page, all in color, and with five black and white full-page woodcuts. Ibrahim-Hilmy 257. Oxford DNB, P.C. Hammond, "Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (1815 1881)". Written by a theological historian who traveled up the Nile in 1852 - 1853. First published in 1856, Stanley's history was a popular success. His publication describes his time in Egypt, Palestine, Damascus, Syria, Jerusalem, Lebanon, and other places significant to early Christianity. Beautifully illustrated. Minor rubbing to the extremities, particularly to the front joint; prize binding presentation pasted on the front pastedown, from King's College London to William Turner [Wyman?] for Evening Divinity Classes for the Winter of 1876-7. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00009963

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sinai and Palestine; In Connection with ...
Verlag: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1875
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: Later edition.