Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land Edited with an Introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen msx

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed brick-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. liv, 473, indexed. Illustrated with aplethora of facscimilie sketches and three maps. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Poe, who found it "written with a freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling. Conversational and unpretentious, the book is a delightful narrative of the author's year-long journey through the Middle East, incorporating detailed observations of such architectural marvels as the Pyramids, the temples of Karnak, the red-rock city of Petra and more, and offering charming accounts of a Turkish bath, how to catch a crocodile, the wardrobe of a Nubian damsel, a night in a tomb, the hospitality of the Arabs, desert horses, Easter in Jerusalem, and much more."