[SOLD] L. Valentine – Palestine Past and Present: Pictorial and Descriptive – 1893

A wonderful late 19th-century work of history and travel on the greater Palestine area, published in 1893, also covering parts of modern day Syria and Jordan.

With 150 black and white wood engravings throughout the text, and several full-colour plates, with tissue guards.

Hardback, large format, bound in decorative green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. One of the most attractive and profusely-illustrated works on Palestine from this period, and difficult to find in such good condition.

In very good condition.  Decorative gilt lettering to front board and spine, with gilt text block. Minor creasing to extremities of spine. Spotting and foxing to early pages, then clean and bright inside with no writing or inscriptions.  Binding tight and square.

First edition. Published in 1893 by Frederick Warne in London. 435 pages.