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, etc., The Islands of the Archipelago and Constantinople, Homeward, and Final chapter. With errata page and two pages of publisher's titles at rear. Binding with light wear along edges, more pronounced at head and tail of sunned spine. Block lightly age-toned and small sticker of binder (Wesley & Clarke) on inside back cover.
(Inventory #: 54740)