A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697. The Fifth Edition, to Which is Now Added an Account of the Author’s Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. By Hen. Maundrell, M. A. Late Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the Factory at Aleppo

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Nineteenth-century rebinding in quarter green paper, marbled paper to boards, red cloth to outer board corners. Printed paper label to spine. Mild wear to board and spine edges. Boards slightly bowed. Hinges sound. All edges speckled red. 8vo (12.1 x 19.5cm). Front endpaper scarcely cracked at gutter. Reproduction of armorial bookplate of ‘J. H. Ewing’, with crest of the Orr-Ewing baronets, to inside front board, covering traces where an earlier bookplate has been removed. Browning to endpapers. Tear to front free endpaper at bottom gutter (3.5cm). Lacking blank endpages. Minor pen inscription to t.p. Title page vignette, 9 folding, and 6 single page plates. Old repair to first folding plate at rear fold, with minor loss to image. Fourth folding plate has been discreetly repaired at gutter, with no affect on image. Minor scattered foxing and use marks; moderate pencil side-lining. Henry Maundrell (bap. 1665, d. 1701), Church of England clergyman and traveller. Maudrell was appointed chaplain to the Levant Company’s factory in Aleppo, Türkiye, in 1695, and in 1697, with fourteen others, undertook the journey described in this volume, an Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem. First published in 1703, Maundrell’s work is a classic travel narrative, ‘taut, disciplined writing from which every wrinkle of ambiguity has been ironed away’ (Howell, 1963, ‘Introduction’, in H. Maundrell, A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697, reprint, xi), giving detailed descriptions of ‘the life and landscapes of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine’, accompanied by ‘careful measurements and plans of major sites such as Baalbek’ (ODNB). Maundrell’s account is ‘well informed from contemporary and much earlier, classical and biblical sources, and written in an economic but witty and informative style’ (ODNB). ESTC T100589. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request.