8vo. iv, [1] 206 pp., [8 adverts], 44 steel engravings including a frontispiece with tissue-guards, steel engraved vignette on half-title page, folding map is missing (a scanned image is provided), text within borders, contemporary gilt decorated cloth, faded and lightly soiled, rubbed at spine, previous owners’ name inscribed on front fly leaf, title and frontis detached, scattered foxing, Arthur Hall & Co., London, fifth edition, [1862].

Synopsis

First published in 1848. ‘This is an account of Bartlett’s fourth journey to the Levant when he visited Egypt, Mount Sinai and Syria from August to October, 1845. From this same journey he gathered material for the very successful Nile Boat, or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt’ (Blackmer). ‘The special objects which may, perhaps, excuse the addition of the present volume on the subject to the multitude which have already appeared are – the desire to give somewhat more of distinctness to the route of the Israelites than is to be found in the work of Laborde; to depict, though but imperfectly, the valley of Ferran, and the neighbouring mountain of the Serbal, not only the most romantic spot in the Arabian peninsula, but confidently pronounced by no less a savant than Dr. Lepsius to be the real Sinai; as also to give a picture of Petra, that extraordinary rock-hewn capital of Edom’ (preface). References: Rohricht 402 cites five editions, 1848, 1853, 1856; Hilmy I, 55 for first edition; Blackmer 92 for fifth edition.