Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – Sinai and Palestine – 1862

A classic account of a journey in the 1850s across Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, with numerous attractive fold-out maps in colour and other illustrations, one of the seminal travel works on the region.

Sections on Cairo, Jerusalem, Lebanon, The Dead Sea, Palestine and others. With historical and religious descriptions of sites, daily life, landscapes, history and more.

Features several fold-out colour maps showing geology, geography and other features.

Published by John Murray in 1862 in London. Hardback. In an attractive modern blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition indeed. Some spotting and foxing internally.