first edition Hardcover
1839 · Philadelphia
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Marbled boards with leather spine, gilt title and small design. 139pp. Frontispiece is a map of the middle east and eastern Egypt. Contains eight b/w plates showing sketches of the ruins of Petra which are carved directly into the sandstone cliff faces and gained particular fame after being featured in climactic scenes in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which its facade is represented as the entrance to the final resting place of the Holy Grail.Covers show light wear with rubbing at corners. Foxing throughout.
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