Five Years in Damascus; with travels and researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, the Giant Cities of Bashan, and the Hauran.

  • Porter, Josias Leslie
  • London: John Murray 1870

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8vo, pp. xvi, 339, [1] + frontispiece, 1 plate & folding map. Black and white illustrations within pagination. Contemporary full green calf prize binding, spine divided by raised bands tooled in gilt, brown and tan morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A touch of spotting. Binding a little rubbed, particularly to spine, faint marks to boards. Calligraphic inscription for prize awarded to W. Humphrey to front flyleaf, dated midsummer 1875, modern bookplate of Michael McGarvie to front pastedown.

Notes

The second edition of the first work of travel writing by Irish Presbyterian minister and missionary Josias Leslie Porter (1823-1889). He spent a decade living in Syria, and wrote several other books on Syria and the surrounding countries. First published in two volumes, this edition was greatly revised, removing some superfluous topographical details and some Greek inscriptions, as in the preface he declares them to have 'served the purpose for which they were originally written' and are 'of little importance to the general reader'.

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