1871 The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.

Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece to each volume, five folding maps (two of which are in colour), and a further fourteen colour and tinted lithographs, alongside further vignettes. Collated, complete.

A compelling travel narrative that documents the author’s extensive explorations on foot through the wilderness of the peninsula of Sinai and the adjacent regions associated with the biblical Exodus.

Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with endpapers renewed.

Contemporary inscriptions of J B Moore to title page heads.

With sixteen pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.

With reflections on the biblical wanderings of the Israelites, and on the Bedouin camps.