A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
by MAUNDRELL, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Cochrane, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: A. Peisley. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1740. Sixth Edition. Full-Leather. Printed 1740. Unusually Fine copy in Full Handsome Original Mottled Calf and Raised Bands minor chipping and split to rear upper spine. The Book: MAUNDRELL, Henry, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697. The Sixth Edition. The which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Printed at the Theatre, Oxford 1740. 6th and FINEST EDITION, 8vo. Engraved vignette on title, 14 engraved plates of which 8 are folding, FINE MOTTLED ENGLISH CALF, VERY FINE COPY THE MOST FAMOUS OF PALESTINE TRAVELOGUES. Henry Maundrell was the Levant Company's chaplain of Aleppo from 1696 to 1701. This work contains the first description of Balbec by an Englishman. Blackmer 1095. Cox i, p.119. Tobler 116d17. Travelogues written by Europeans visiting Palestine after that period point to a shift in Europe's relationship to the region. Where medieval pilgrims had often wept or gone into trances upon their arrival in Jerusalem, modern European visitors observed with curiosity what was before their eyes. They were traveling for pleasure and for cultural experiences; tourism was gradually replacing pilgrimage as a motive for visiting Palestine. By the end of the seventeenth century quite a few European tourists had already been to Jerusalem. The most famous among them was Henry Maundrell, the author of the book A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem in 1697. The book would prove to be one of the most popular books about the East for centuries to come. By 1749 seven editions in different European languages had appeared, and sections of the book continued to appear in collections of travel writings published both in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.[2] The lure of printed books in Europe and its American colonies might partially account for the initial popularity of A Journey, but it can not explain why the book remained popular for the more than two centuries after its original appearance. The latter could be explained by the fact that the book is the narrative of a tourist rather than that of a pilgrim, unlike the many other Palestine travel narratives that appeared before it. ; English Language; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Jewish Studies, Bible, Biblica, Travel, Israel, Palestine,Kabbalah, Judaica, Jewish Studies, Hebrew, Talmud, Rashi, .
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- Bookseller
- Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000433
- Title
- A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
- Author
- MAUNDRELL, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. Peisley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1740
- Keywords
- Jewish Studies, Bible, Biblica, Travel, Israel, Palestine, Kabbalah, Judaica, Jewish Studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- 18th Century Rare Book; 18th Century Judaica;
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