Henri MAUNDRELL
Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697
Chez Guillaume van Poolsum|à Utrecht 1705|9 x 15 cm|relié
Reprint of the rare French first edition published in 1704, illustrated with 9 figures including 5 folding plates of Mount Thabor, Baalbek, the cisterns of Solomon... A Parisian edition was also published in 1705. The English first edition dates from 1703 in Oxford.
Bound in full blonde sheep, root-marbled, later binding (c. 1790). Smooth spine decorated with 5 tools and repeated roulette. Headcap torn off. Two corners bumped.
Chaplain to the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Maundrell accomplished a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1696 accompanied by 14 coreligionists. The narrative follows the form of a daily journal. The travelers passed through Lebanon and Syria, and Maundrell provides the first description of Baalbek known to the English and gives other descriptions of famous sites: Sidon, Palmyra, Tyre. The author dwells particularly on Old Testament sites around Jerusalem, Samaria, the Dead Sea, Nazareth...
Bound in full blonde sheep, root-marbled, later binding (c. 1790). Smooth spine decorated with 5 tools and repeated roulette. Headcap torn off. Two corners bumped.
Chaplain to the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Maundrell accomplished a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1696 accompanied by 14 coreligionists. The narrative follows the form of a daily journal. The travelers passed through Lebanon and Syria, and Maundrell provides the first description of Baalbek known to the English and gives other descriptions of famous sites: Sidon, Palmyra, Tyre. The author dwells particularly on Old Testament sites around Jerusalem, Samaria, the Dead Sea, Nazareth...
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