PRESCOTT, Hilda Frances Margaret. Once to Sinai. The further pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri. London, Eyre & Spottiswode, 1957.
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 310, plates and sketch maps; head of spine of the wrappers with slight loss, light offsetting to endpapers, a little spotting to edges, otherwise very good.
Scarce first edition of historian and historical novelist Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott's (1896-1972) travelogue based on Swiss Dominican friar and theologian Felix Fabri's (1441-1502) Evagatorium, recording his second pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which led him to Sinai and Egypt as well. Inbetween travelogue and historiography, this is a highly legible account and re-count of Fabri's experience in the Middle East.
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