Syria and The Holy Land Illustrated in a series of magnificent engravings, …with an historical and geographical account of this ancient country; a description of the manners and customs of its people; and full and authentic details of the late massacres of the Christian inhabitants by W. Cooke Stafford, esq. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

Carne, John./ W. Cooke Stafford (Text)/ William Henry Bartlett & Thomas Allom (Illustrators).

Book ID: 17221

£500.00

4to. [2], 128 pp., / [2], 108 pp., 118 engraved plates including 2 maps and title engravings, tables, contemporary half calf, rubbed, title gilt on raised and decorated spine, marbled endpaper & edges, damp staining to inner margins of first and last 20 pages, some browning, London Printing and Publishing Company, London and New York, [1861-1863].

Synopsis

Although there is no date of publication, but it is sure that it was printed after the 1860 massacres in Syria. The dissertation of W. Cooke Stafford describes the massacres of the Syrian Christians.