THE DESERT ON FOOT IN THE WILDERNESS OF THE FORTY YEARS' WANDERINGSOF THE EXODUS - JOURNEY by Palmer, E. H - 1872

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Desert Of The Exodus : Journeys On Foot In The Wilderness Of The Forty Years' Wanderings : Undertaken In Connexion With The Ordnance Survey Of Sinai, And The Palestine Exploration Fund (Part I).

Harper & Brothers, 1872. Hardcover. Good. Beautiful green boards with gilt image on front (Moses) ? with fold out maps and illustrations

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Deighton, Bell, and Co, 1871-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2 volumes. Original green cloth, gilt. Bookplate. Chipping to head of spine, gutter cracks to Vol. I, front hinge cracked to Vol. II. Crayon marks to maps, Vol. II map detached with wear.

Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co, 1871. First printing. Hardcover. Good +. First edition, 1871. Two green cloth 8vo's, 280pp + 576pp + 12pp catalog at rear. Broadly illustrated, including maps, including many folding, colored or tinted. Includes large folding map at the beginning of volume II, carefully reinforced on the verso with paper tape and holding in very good condition. Volume II is generally very good with light shelfwear and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Volume I is in good only condition with general soil to boards, some insect nibbling to part of the spine cloth, and a few instances of dampstaining to the bottom margin. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. A nice set of these scarce volumes.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. First American edition. Three folding maps, plates. xv, [1], [17]-470, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth gilt. Headcap worn, upper joint rubbed with two-inch start, inner hinge cracked, short closed tears in two map. Good. First American edition. Three folding maps, plates. xv, [1], [17]-470, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First American edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [3], 18-470, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with a gilt decoration and black borders on the front board, black border on the rear board, gilt lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. With maps and numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings taken on the spot of the Sinai survey expedition, and C.F. Tyrwhitt Drake. Several of the maps are folding. An informative account of regions in Egypt mentioned in the Bible. Rubbing to the extremities, the folding maps each have a tear, one of the folding maps with a dampspot. A few private owner's names on the front pastedown and endpaper.