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The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land. From My Private Journal. Volumes I-II by Burton, Isabel
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Price:
€900.00
($ 1311.93)
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Book desription: London, King, 1876. Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. x, 376; 340, 32 publisher's catalogue. Each volume with a mounted original albumen print as a portrait frontispieces. A chromolithograph plate to each volume, and a large folding map, lithographed in colour, to volume I. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's dark brown cloth, half crescent and a star blind embossed on each upper cover, spines gilt, dyed shelf number to foot, spines broken, detached, this of volume II only partly. A very good set in about fine interior. - - Second edition, first published a year earlier. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her bookplate to each volume. Original albumen prints in books are not common. Invented by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Évrard in 1850, the process involved plain paper coated with a layer of egg-white sensitised with silver nitrate before exposure. .
- Bookseller: Librarium of The Hague
 (NL)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 0903
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London, King, 1876
- Keywords: Palestine travel travels travellers travelers pilgrims pilgrimages explorers exploration Palästina Palestina Holy Land Jewish Christianity Christendom Christians Israel ancient early Middle East Levant Heiligen Lande Bible Biblical Testament
- Subjects:
HISTORY / Middle East / General;
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