Tent Work In Palestine, A Record of Discovery and Adventure - Volume I and II
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1878. Illustrations by J.W. Whymper. 1st ed., two vols., octavo, Vol I: pp. xxvi, 381, Index, b/w frontis; Vol II: pp. viii, 352, Index, b/w frontis; b/w plates and wood-engraved vignettes by J.W. Whymper, b&w folding map Volume I, ex-library with multiple stamps front endpapers both volumes, library stamp pp.135 Volume II, remnants of borrowers slip front pastedown both volumes, library call number in ink to verso t.p., rear endpapers Volume II waterstained, front hinges both vols cracked, few ink stains to fore-edge volume I, half leather marbled bds., rubbed, ink stains to spines both vols., bottom edge of volume II waterdamaged and leather beginning to lift at corner, despite faults still sound.
Survey work of the British carried out 1872-1875 in Western Palestine by English soldier and explorer, Claude Reignier Conder, and later with H.H. Kitchener (Lord Kitchener) on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Item #78612
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