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Large 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [1], 2-614, [2] pp. Grey cloth with grey decorations and lettering stamped on the front board, gilt lettering and a grey decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with nearly eighty beautiful black and white photolithographic full-page illustrations (including a frontispiece). The account of a Methodist clergyman's travels throughout Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. Buckley's book provides a historical account of the state of the ruins of Greco-Roman Antiquity and the Levant in the late nineteenth century as well as an account of the contemporary residents of these places. This book includes plates of the Sphinx, the Duomo, the Dead Sea, the Jordan, the Pyramids, the Cathedral of Milan, the Acropolis, Corinth, Tangier, the Bosporus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and much more. The plates are brilliantly clear and reflect what the greatest sights of these places looked like in the late nineteenth century. A Near Fine book with minor rubbing to the cloth's edges. Seller Inventory # 000013460
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