SPILSBURY, F[RANCIS] B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

W. Bulmer and Co.

London

1803

FIRST EDITION. Mezzotint frontispiece portrait + 19 hand-colored plates, mostly aquatints. Broad margins

Abbey, Travel 381; Colas 2788; Lipperheide 1460; Röhricht 1562; Blackmer Cat. no. 1022

From 1799-1800, the British and the Turks united to fight Napolean's advance in the area that is now modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Syria. "Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria" depicts scenes that Spilsbury witnessed in his position of surgeon to H.M.S. Le Tigre. The work includes his encounters in Acre, Sidon, Tyre, Beirut, Genin, the Lake of Tiberia, Tripoli, Caesarea, Jaffa, Jerusalem, etc. Spilsbury often observes and contrasts the contemporary society as he saw it and the lands as described in the Bible