first edition Hardcover
1843 · London
by Fisk, George
London: Seeley, Burnside, And Seeley, Fleet-Street; T. Simpson, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Good+ condition. Small Quarto. xiv, [1] 461 [3]pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decor on covers, gilt lettering and blind-stamped tooling on spine., protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece engraving of the mount of olives and garden of Gethsemane, with tissue guard. Contains brief notes of a route through France, Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and up the Danube. The volume contains twelve chapters: European Route; Egypt, The Arabian Desert, The Desert (chapters IV and V), Palestine, Jerusalem, The Dead Sea, Jordan, etc., Jerusalem, Sychar, Nazareth, (truncated)