1836 Journey Through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first English translation of French archaeologist and traveller Leon de Laborde's account of his travels through Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, before entering the French diplomatic service.

Published originally in 1830 in French.

Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece, and twenty-six plates, with further vignettes. Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Gent. Aylmer to the front pastedown, and of Francis E. B. Witts, a Church of England clergyman and amateur bell-ringer, to the rear pastedown.

One page of publisher's adverts to the rear.

In 1846, de Laborde was made curator of the Louvre Museum of Antiques, and in 1857 director-general of the archives of the Second French Empire.