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Lot 409
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(Kinglake, Alexander William) Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home From The East London: John Ollivier, 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (i)- xi, (i), (1)-418 pp. Original gilt-pictorial green cloth, untrimmed edges; corners bumped, back joint starting to fray, head and foot of spine frayed - loss to bottom blind rule. With folding color lithographic frontispiece (some wear and dust smudging at fore edge) and 1 color lithographic plate. Some minor internal dust smudging, some dust smudging to title-page, scattered foxing at back. Ex-library with pencil marking on title-page and head of p. (1). Abbey Travel 362. Curzon, Robert A Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant New York: Putnam, 1849. 12mo. Original gilt-pictorial green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, untrimmed edges; corners bumped, small chip at head of spine - no loss to gilt lettering. With frontispiece, title vignette, and 13 (of 15) plates [lacking Interior of an Abyssinian Library and Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem]. Light to moderate foxing at front, other scattered, mostly light, foxing. Ex-library with ink stamp on front paste-down, pencil marking on title-page, blue crayon marking on verso of title-page. (Ruete, Emily) Memoirs of an Arabian Princess New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. Translated by Lionel Strachey. 8vo. Original gilt and silver pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; joints and extremities scuffed. With 32 plates, including frontispiece portrait and photo plates. Internally clean. Ex- library with label on front paste-down, pencil markings on title-page. Baedeker, Karl Palestine and Syria Leipzig; London; New York, 1912. Fifth edition. 24mo. Original gilt-lettered flexible red cloth. With 21 maps, 56 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem. Tight, bright copy. Ink ownership stamp on front paste-down and half title-page. Ex-library with ink stamp on verso of front free endpaper, pencil markings on title-page.