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Livres anciens et modernes

Stanley

SINAI AND PALESTINE IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR HISTORY

John Murray, 1881

379,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Détails

Année
1881
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
Stanley
Éditeurs
John Murray

Description

Early Printing. With 5 sketch plans and maps in the text, a coloured elevation as frontispiece, and 6 colour maps, most of which are folding. 8vo, publisher's original cloth, the covers blocked in blind and the spne lettered in gilt. lviii, 560, 32 ads pp. A very well preserved copy, clean and tight and with very little evidence of age or use, the hinges strong, the text clean and bright.

Edizione: a very well preserved copy of a work still in constant use with additions appearing here for the first time. the record of the author's travels in the holy land, with a particular emphasis on how the sacred geography relates to and influenced the sacred history.<br> though he was canon of canterbury during the writing of this book and was eventually dean of westminster, stanley's interests were not limited to the ecclesiastical-- his travels in europe, asia, africa and america were also marked by his enthusiasm for the history and historical landscape of those regions.
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