12mo. 400 pp., folding frontispiece map, 9 engraved plates including a title vignette, contemporary full calf, lightly soiled and rubbed round edges, title gilt on raised & decorated spine, marbled edges and endpapers, biblio, index, bookplate verso front cover, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, fourth edition, 1837.

Synopsis

Michael Russell, a British clergy and a voluminous author. For many years he was a contributor to the “ Encyclopedia Metropolitana”. He published several books on North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land.
This work is an account of the constitution, the antiquities, the religion, and the literature of the Hebrews, with a narrative of their history in the Holy Land. It contains rich topographical description of the Holy Land, drawn from the works of numerous travellers and pilgrims, and a chapter on the land’s natural history in relation to the Scriptures.
Bibliographic reference: Rohricht p. 366.