Narrative of the United States’s Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/393

Next Lot>

Lot 328

LYNCH, W. F.

Narrative of the United States’s Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.

Revised Edition. Fold-out maps and plates pp. 20, 13-509 + ads. Some light browning. Original gilt-stamped boards, rubbed. 4to. Rosenbach 653; Blackmer 1043; Tobler p.176.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1849

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

Entertaining travelogue of the Holy Land, with a stop along the way in Smyrna. The writer describes the dress and demeanor of the various inhabitants: Christians, Jews and Muslims. Detailed maps of the topography with a focus on the Dead Sea region. The scientific survey was undertaken at the behest of the United States Navy.