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good. hardcover. dust jacket wear.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

2 lithograph plates (foxed); xii+423pp. 8vo orig. green cloth gilt, rebacked, corners worn, This account of his Middle East travels was first published in the previous year at the author's expense, but proved an extremely popular work.

H. Good.

(London: Harrison: 1864) New Edition. [f.p. also anonymously in 1844] Pict. cl. (gilt), bevelled bds pp. [ii], 320. Illust. Edges uncut. Very good

London: John Ollivier, 1847. 8vo, 306pp, original blue decorative cloth, b/w frontispiece engraving and several other engravings within text. Fifth edition of the author's account of a journey to Egypt. Art deco bookplate to front pastedown. Chip to head of spine, covers soiled/darkened and edgeworn, toning to pages, about very good.

London:: John Olliver,, 1845.. Third edition.. contemporary half calf and marbled boards; gilt spine.. Armorial bookplate; some scattered very light foxing; light rubbing to boards at extremities. Tight and sound.. 8vo,. Folding color lithographic frontispiece and one color plate.

London: John Ollivier,, 1845. Half-title. xi, 423pp. Tinted litho frontis and one other plate. Shaken copy with tired but complete original green buckram binding. Gilt block of rider and horse to front cover. Lacks front f.e.p.. fourth edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: John Ollivier, 59, Pall Mall, 1845. Third Edition. Folding hand coloured frontispiece WITHOUT second plate. viii, [i], 424pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters brown mottled polished calf and marbled boards, maroon title label, with the original green cloth upper cover with gilt stamped vignette tipped in at the back. Third Edition. Folding hand coloured frontispiece WITHOUT second plate. viii, [i], 424pp. 8vo. "In August 1834, Kinglake set out on an eighteen-month odyssey through Europe and the Ottoman empire. After encountering plague in Constantinople, he travelled to Smyrna, Cyprus, Beirut, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem, before crossing the Sinai Desert to Cairo. Following three weeks in Egypt, he returned north through Damascus and Asia Minor then via Athens, Corfu, Rome, and Turin to London. On 5 May 1837, Kinglake was called to the bar but...continued to travel, visiting Switzerland in 1843, and the following year Eothen, his account of the 1834-5 Turkish adventures, was published… Read More