By John Kelman
London   Adam and Charles Black
9" by 6.5" xvi, 368pp.
A smart first edition of this insightful travel guide to Syria, with a folding map and colour illustrations.
By John Kelman

1908 From Damascus to Palmyra

London   Adam and Charles Black
9" by 6.5" xvi, 368pp.
A smart first edition of this insightful travel guide to Syria, with a folding map and colour illustrations.
£180.00
: 1kgs / : 888T24

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Description

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

First edition.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eighty-five colour plates, and a folding map. Collated complete.

A detailed travel guide to Syria, with chapters on Damascus, oasis villages, Arab life, the desert, the ancient city of Palmyra, and much more.

Written by John Kelman, a Scottish minister, lecturer, and author.

Illustrated by Margaret Thomas, a British painter.

Condition

In the original cream pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and light fading to the spine. Marks to the rear board. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers.

Very Good

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