MAUNDRELL (Henry).

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MAUNDRELL (Henry).
Trip from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter in the year 1697. Translated from the English. Utrecht, Chez Guillaume van Poolsum, 1705, in 12, false title drawn and engraved by J. Goeree, [10]-251p., full brown basane of the time, back with 4 ribs decorated with golden boxes (upper cap flattened, rubbed rel. leg., 1 wormhole in the last few lines). Reprint of the original French edition published in 1704. It is illustrated with 9 figures including 5 folding plates of Mount Tabor, Baalbek, the cisterns of Solomon... A Parisian edition was also published in 1705. The original English edition dates from 1703 in Oxford. Chaplain of the English Levantine Company in Aleppo, Maundrell made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1696 in the company of 14 co-religionists. The narrative follows the form of a daily diary. The travellers pass through Lebanon and Syria, and Maundrell reports the first description of Baalbek known to the English and gives other descriptions of famous sites: Sidon, Palmyra, Tyre. The author pays particular attention to Old Testament sites around Jerusalem, Samaria, the Dead Sea, Nazareth... Rare.
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