1849 Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites

Description

Decorative Binding, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding

This work is the account of the author's travels through the Middle East, following the Biblical footsteps across the desert for forty days, as the Israelites followed Moses leading them out of Egypt.

Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece, twenty-four plates and one folding map. Collated, complete.

In a contemporary imitation walnut lacquered papier-mache binding. Now uncommon, these bindings were popular in the mid-Victorian era.

Undated; dated 1849 via WorldCat.

Written and illustrated by William Henry Bartlett. Bartlett was an illustrator who travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, America, and the Balkans. During his travels he authored works which he also illustrated. He is best known for his landscape illustrations, frequently rendered as steel engravings.