The Desert of Sinai: Notes of a Spring-Journey from Cairo to Beersheba.
by Bonar, Horatius
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London, James Nisbet, 1858. Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. vii, (1) errata, 424. Plus folding engraved map of the Sinaitic Peninsula as frontispiece (neat paper repair on verso), and 3 engraved plates bound in. With an appendix describing the route through the desert with a list of place names; an extended index, in practice a glossary, incorporating numerous words in Hebrew; a list of mountains' heights; and an index of scripture sources quoted in the text. Some illustrations to the text, footnotes. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's decorated brown cloth, large illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, joints worn, partly split. In good condition. ~ Second edition. "This volume is really what it professes to be - 'Notes of a journey.' The notes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, and extended afterwards." The author, Kelso, 1856. Not in Tobler. F-5 OUT
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- The Desert of Sinai: Notes of a Spring-Journey from Cairo to Beersheba.
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- Bonar, Horatius
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- London, James Nisbet
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- 1858
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- Errata
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