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[BARTLETT, William Henry]. Forty Days in the Desert, on the Track of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra. By the Author of "Walks about Jerusalem". London, Arthur Hall, [1848].
Royal 8vo. Publisher's original cloth, ornamented and lettered in gilt, ; pp. [iv], 206, [8, publisher's advertisements]; additional steel-engraved title, steel-engraved frontispiece, 24 steel-engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map, wood-engravings to text; extremities a bit worn, front hinge restored; occasional light spotting to plates, as usual; a very good copy with contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf, pasted in biographical note on the author underneath, bookplate of the militiary surgeon Sir Thomas Longmore inside front cover, anonymous author identified on title-page in a contemporary hand.
~b~Uncommon first edition.~/b~ Bartlett's fourth journey to the Levant, when he visited Egypt, Mount Sinai and Syria from August to October, 1845. The same journey also provided material for his Nile Boat. Bartlett was not only one of the foremost topographical artists of the mid-Victorian era, but as well a very good narrator of his travels with good observation of details and a sense of humor. Initially he had worked for topographical writers and travel writers. But as 'by the mid-1840s demand for travel book illustrations slackened … Bartlett turned to writing his own books, illustrated with steel-engravings and woodcuts prepared from his drawings. Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem (1844) was followed by Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites (1848) and The Nile Boat (1849)' (ODNB). - There were at least six later editions of this title up to 1870.
See Blackmer 92 for the fifth edition.
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