Book Details
| Author: | De Lamartine, Alphonse: |
| Title: | Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land. |
| Published: | Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1850. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 10 - Travel and Topography |
| Description: | With a Memoir of the Author. Two Volumes. Vol I - 302 pp. Contents: Life of Lamartine, Author's Preface, Travels in the East, Journey from Beirout through Syria and Palestine to Jerusalem, Jericho, Poem: Gethsemane, or The Death of Julia. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Browning on eps. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's inscription on back of title page. A few spots of foxing on prelims and occasional spots in text. Some pages of text finger-soiled. Vol II - 320 pp. Contents: Journey in Syria Continued, Ruins of Balbek, Damascus, Beirout and Lebanon, Jaffa, Constantinople, Servia, Account of the Residence of Fatalla Sayeghir amongst the Wandering Arabs of the Great Desert, Poem of Antar, Arab Poetry, Author's Political Summary + Appendix. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Browning on eps. Very occasional spot of foxing in text. both Vols - Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Blind stamp decoration on boards and spine. Spines somewhat faded. Vol I - split of about three inches along front edge of spine. Split of about two inches along back edge of spine. Top and bottom of spine rubbed with nicks in cloth. Corners rubbed. Overall condition VG-. Vol II - Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #4889 |
| Price: | € 125.00 |
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