(London: T. Cadell, In the Strand and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1822).

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. The author recounts the long journey taken with the Earl of Belmore which began in 1816 at Southampton and carried on through Malta, Sicily, the Ionian Islands, Greece and Constantinople took its direction from Alexandria onward. In Egypt, Cairo, the lakes, the pyramids and Sphinx, a voyage up the Nile, on to Nubia, the author relates with keen observation many cultural, religious and social customs which existed at the time. The first volume of the work has solely to due with Egypt. The second volume continues the Egyptian work and discusses in great detail similar styled observations in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Malta. A large section of the second volume is also devoted to a wide ranging discussion of Jerusalem. Charts and illustrations including a number of folding plates, augment the work. A beautifully preserved copy. Item #34080

2 volumes. First Edition Complete with seven lithographic plates, one of which is coloured and two plans. 8vo, very handsomely bound in fine contemporary cal f, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments with panels incorporating central gilt tooling and two contrasting black and brown labels gilt to each volume, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, inner roll-tooled wide borders in blind, marbled endleaves, and all edges marbled. xiv, 536; [4], 527, [6] pp. An unusually fine copy, beautifully preserved. The bindings tight and strong and in very good order with minimal evidence of age or use, the text-blocks clean.