Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – Sinai and Palestine – 1883

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 1883 in London. Hardback. In an attractive full light-brown calf prize binding, with gilt borders, decorative spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. Lettering to spine in gilt against a black background. Embossed crest to front board, gilt lettering to rear board, bookplate on inside front.

In very good condition. Binding tight and square. Very slight edgewear only. A lovely example.