David Roberts' Egypt & The Hold Land
London: The Schuster Gallery, c. 1987. Paperback. illustrations (none full-page), 27, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. Slightly oblong (21 x 20cm.). More
Holy Land
The Holy Land and Egypt. With a Reproduction in Colors of a Map Painted by Kaj Klitgaard
Mount Vernon: Rudge, 1927. Hardcover. frontis (map), colored folding map, (7)-pages. Japanese vellum with gilt lettering and original ties intact. 29cm. Light cover soil. No Jacket. Christmas book limited to 490 copies. More
An Open Letter Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore ... On the Day of his Arrival in the Holy City of Jerusalem ... Sunday, 22 Tamooz, 5635, A.M. - July 25, 1875 ... (Translated from the Original Hebrew.) Together with a Narrative of a Forty Days' Sojourn in the Holy Land ... by Sir Moses Montefiore....
London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea and Co., 1875. 1st ed. Hardcover. 148p. plus (40)p. of Hebrew text. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt.25cm. Lacks backstrip (several jagged pieces preserved). Cover spotting and other wear. Minor foxing and a few small stains in text. Bookplate of Montefiore reproduced on front pastedown... More
From Egypt to Palestine: Through Sinai, the Wilderness and the South Country
New York: Arno Press, 1977. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, maps (2 folding and 2 double-page), index, 555p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Corner bumped. No Jacket. America and the Holy Land (Arno series). Reprint of the 1879 New York edition. More
A Pilgrimage through the Holy Land, Explanatory of the Diorama of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Painted under the Direction of Mr. W. Beverly, from Original Sketches, Made on the Spot, during Repeated Journeys in the East....
London: n.d. [ca. 1851?]. Paperback. 38p. Original wrapper. 22cm. Modest gnawed (or torn) area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket ("Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer"). An illustrated 66-page version was also published... More
Sinai und Zion: Eine Pilgerreise durch die Wuste nach dem gelobte Lande
Reading, Pa. Daniel Miller, (1875). Hardcover. Translated from the English. frontis, illustrations, xvi, 448p. Green cloth. 21cm. Covers spotted & rather worn. Foxing. German text (Gothic type). More
Outlines of Bible Geography, Physical and Political
London: Nelson, 1872. Hardcover. folding map, index, viii, [9]-94p. Original cloth. 17cm. Cover spotting (heaviest on back cover). Former owner's name. More
The Developments of Palestine Exploration: Being the Ely Lectures for 1903
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Hardcover. index, xvii, 337p. Green cloth. 19cm. Stain in lower right corner of margins. Spine edges scuffed. No Jacket. More
Dictionary and Gazetteer of the Holy Bible; Comprising the Lives of the Patriarchs and Prophets; of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; of the Evangelists and Apostles ... an Historical and Geographical Account of the Countries, Cities, Villages, Mountains, Valleys, Lakes and Rivers ... With a Memoir of the Author. A New Edition, Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Much Improved, by a Member of the United Secession Church
Glasgow: D. Mackenzie, n.d. [Preface dated 1833 but the paper feels like pulp which suggests a later date]. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 5 steel engravings, xii, 566p. Mid-19th century 1/2 leather. 27cm. Covers worn. Front cover detached. Bookplates and a former owner's name (dated 1852). Contents moderately browned but otherwise sound... More
Remarks on Stephens's "Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land." First published in the "North American Review," No. 102.
Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, 1839. 1st separate ed.(?). Hardcover. map, 80p. Rebound in modern boards. 20cm. Paper splitting along front joint. Minor browning. More
Bible Atlas or Maps and Plans to Illustrate the Geography and Topography of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, with Explanatory Notes
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1968. Hardcover. 12 maps and plates, index, 111p. Original purple cloth. 32cm. Joints split. Backstrip heavily chipped at ends. Front hinge-paper cracked. Contents sound and clean. More
Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa. Part the Second: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Sections One-Three
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812-1816. 1st ed. Hardcover. Part the Second Complete in Three volumes (constituting Vol. 2-4 of the 6 volume First Edition published between 1810 and 1823). 88 (of 89) plates and maps (some folding), xix, (13), 715, xv, (12), 20, 822, xx, [14], 735p. Rebound... More
The Recovery of the Holy Land
New York: Columbia, 1956. First American Edition. Hardcover. index, xvi, 251p. Dark green cloth. 23cm. Cover lightly rubbed. No Jacket. Translated by Walther I. Brandt. More
Digging Up Biblical History: Recent Archaeology in Palestine and Its Bearing on the Old Testament
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1931). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. frontis, illustrations, photos, index, 275, 256p.Original blue cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. No Jacket. Laid in is an Autograph Letter, signed by Duncan, discussing this book and his future projects. More
Palestine: "A Fifth Gospel": Four Lectures on the Christian Evidence Borne by the Holy Land as It Is Today
Springfield, Mass: F. A. Basset, (c. 1901). Hardcover. 139p. Burgundy cloth. 20cm. Foxing, mostly on endpapers. Gift inscription. No Jacket. Quite uncommon. More
Report
London: HMSO, 1938. 1st ed. Paperback. 11 (of 13) maps (all but one folding), 310p. Original blue wrapper. 25cm. Moderate soiling, chipping and wear. Lacks Maps 11 (Map illustrating Jewish Proposals with regard to Jerusalem) and 12 (The Proposed Boundary between Jaffa and Tel Aviv), both of which should have... More
Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture, Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... Grounded on Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels into the East ...
London: Thomas Field, 1764. 1st ed. Hardcover. [2], xv, [1], 446, [24]p. (including, index, adverts and errata). Old, probably contemporary, leather. 20cm. Lacks free endpapers. Former owners' names on end pages and on first page of Index. Modest browning of text. Harmer, minister of an "independent" church in Suffolk (Great... More
The Dauntless Company
New York: Century, (c. 1930). Leslie D. Thomas. 1st Edition. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations (by Leslie D. Thomas), map (on endpapers), 192p. 19cm. Jacket chipped. Juvenile fiction about the Children's Crusade in 1212. More
Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the East, during the Years 1824 to 1840
New York: Winchester, n.d. [1842?]. Paperback. Translated from the third German edition by William. Howitt. viii, [9]-97p. Softcover in partial original wrapper (front cover only). 23cm. Sound copy with substantial dog-earing, chipping and wear. Text double-columned. His account includes time spent in various parts of Europe (pp. 9-37 and 80-97)... More
Picturesque Holy Land; Its People and History, with Scenes and Events in the Lives of Jesus and His Apostles; The history of the New Testament, and the Evidences of Christianity.
New Haven: Unitersity Publishing Company, 1879. Hardcover. 2nd title-page in red and gilt, 4 steel engravings (including frontis), numerous woodcut illustratopms, approx. 220 unnumbered pages. Original green cloth. Pictorial cover. Modest foxing mostly confined to the steel engravings and the outer few leaves at the beginning and end. Tear in... More
Les Narrateurs de la Premiere Croisade
Paris: J. Gamber, 1928. Paperback. 92p. Moderately worn original wrapper. 25cm. Browned and rather brittle. Faint institutional stamp on title-page. Unopened. French text. More
Hadji in Syria; or, Three Years in Jerusalem
New York: Arno Press, 1977. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 303p. Blue cloth. 21cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1858 edition published in Philadelphia. More
Notes on Travels, Including a Trip Around the World by Way of Australia
Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1914. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), index, vi, (1), 295p. Brown cloth. 20cm. New Zealand, Australia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Europe. More
Among the Holy Places: A Pilgrimage through Palestine
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. 3rd ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, index, 388p. Original blue cloth. 23cm. Spine slightly sloped. Joints have small frayed spots. Minor foxing. More
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Itineraires Russes en Orient. [cover title]
Geneve: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1889. Paperback. 334p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Moderate browning. Partially unopened. Publications de la Societe de l'Orient Latin. Serie Geographique, V. More