8vo. xx, 509 pp., 2 folding maps, 28 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece, contemporary full calf, title gilt on raised and decorated spine, all edges gilt, coat of arms of Duke de Luynes, occasional spotting, Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, seventh revised edition, 1850.

Synopsis

Lynch (1801-1865), a US officer who studied the Dead Sea. The official report of this journey was not published until 1852. Lynch carried out the first successful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. The plates are after drawings by members of the expedition. A German edition of this work was published at Leipzig in 1854.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 1043; Heinze III, 314 ff; Rohricht p. 432; Tobler p.176.