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Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xv, [1], 669 pp., folding engraved map of Syria with the route pursued by Mr Buckingham, in his travels among the Arab tribes on the east of the Jordan, including a great portion of the ancient Auranites or modern Hauran, with the newly ascertained positions in the intermediate districts of Palestine and Syria from the Dead Sea to Aleppo, drawn and engraved by Sidy Hall, 28 chapter head illustrations, advertisement verso of last leaf, contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, spine professionally restored. With an appendix, containing a refutation of certain unfounded calumnies industriously circulated against the author of this work, by Mr. Lewis Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and the Quarterly Review, RCSI Library stamp to title and a couple of other leaves, foxing to endpapers and preliminary leaves, otherwise copy in good condition. A German translation was published in Weimar in 1827/8 and in Jena in 1834. In 1821 Buckingham published 'Travels in Palestine' which described the first part of his voyage overland from Egypt to India in 1816-17 via Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia. The Arab Tribes describes the portion of his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and it also contains an appendix refuting the charges of plagiarism which were levelled against “Travels in Palestine.” Buckingham had been travelling extensively in the Middle East from about 1810 as a sea captain and merchant. After he settled in India he established the ‘Calcutta Journal’, a publication critical of the East India Company. In 1819, in one of the early issues of this journal, he published an account, together with correspondence, of John Lewis Burckhardt, whom he had met in Cairo during the winter of 1813-14. This was reprinted in Phillips' ‘New Voyages and Travels’, vol. 2, no. 3. In 1823 he was exiled from India, returned to England, and began a long suit for damages against the Company which he eventually won in 1834. His several books were written in an attempt to cover the expenses of these trials. Bibliographic references: Blackmer 232; Not in Weber. Tobler, p. 143. #9584.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: from thence through the Plains of thre Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbek, and by the Valley of the Orontes to Selucia, Antioch, and Aleppo. With an Appendix containing a refutation of certain unfounded calumnies industriously circulated against the author of this work, by Mr Lewis Burckhart, Mr William John Bankes, and the Quarterly Review. xv+669 pp. with 28 wood engraved illustrations at the head of chapters, folding map. Dark blue/green cloth boards, with original spine title, as originally issued. The boards show a little shelfwear with some rubbing/wear to the spine extremities, internally very tight, fresh and clean. There is some offsetting of the map onto the facing title page. A very nice copy of a scarce work, in its original condition. Buckingham, 1786-1855 published his first volume of travels in 1821. Charged with plagarism he sought to refute this in the appendix to this volume.
Seller: Saintfield Antiques & Fine Books, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Price: US$2171.06 + shipping
Description: First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter headings; crease to upper corner of pp.xiv-17, toning to title/map, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. Includes Appendix, ?Containing a Refutation of Certain Unfounded Calumnies Industriously Circulated Against the Author of this Work, by William Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and The Quarterly Review?, in which Buckingham seeks to confute the accusations of plagiarism brought against him.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Price: US$2411.77 + shipping
Description: London, Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme Brown e Green (A. & R. Spottiswode), 1825, Prima edizione. Ottimo esemplare completo, a pieni margini in barbe, in legatura e condizioni strettamente coeve, proveniente dalla prestigiosa collezione di Henry Blackmer (ex libris); usura perimetrale ai bordi della legatura, coeva; primo foglio di guardia assente; ultimi fascicoli, dal «Postscript» in poi, in parte slegati; catalogo delleditore, un sedicesimo sottomisura, legato dopo il foglio di guardia posteriore. Secondo libro dedicato da Buckingham al Medio Oriente, impreziosito dal formato grande e dalle belle illustrazioni a corredo del testo. in 4°, legatura dellepoca in mezza pelle con piatti in cartonato grigio, pp. xv [1] 679 [1] viii (Index to Travels in Palestine); grande carta della Siria ripiegata fuori testo in antiporta; bifolio di «Postscript» fuori testo tra pp. 668-[9], con pagine numerate [665*]-[668*]; ventotto incisioni in testa allinizio di ogni capitolo, indicizzate alle prime pagine. Prima edizione. Ottimo esemplare completo, a pieni margini in barbe, in legatura e condizioni strettamente coeve, proveniente dalla prestigiosa collezione di Henry Blackmer (ex libris); usura perimetrale ai bordi della legatura, coeva; primo foglio di guardia assente; ultimi fascicoli, dal «Postscript» in poi, in parte slegati; catalogo delleditore, un sedicesimo sottomisura, legato dopo il foglio di guardia posteriore. legatura dellepoca in mezza pelle con piatti in cartonato grigio,
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli SRL, Milano, MI, Italy
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, (1), 669, (1) pp. + fold-out map frontispiece. Hardcover, bound in early calf over boards, all edges marbled, rebacked to style. The boards are rubbed with paper loss to rear board; repair to cap. Bookplate. Offsetting from the map to the title page; light foxing to the appendix leaves.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$4933.16 + shipping
Description: 4to. XV, (1), 669, (1) pp. With a folding engraved map and 28 wood-engraved vignettes as chapter headings. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. First edition. James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), founder of the Calcutta Journal, Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, The Sphynx, and The Argus, social reformer and founding member of the British and Foreign Institute, travelled in the Middle East as a sea captain and merchant. This work relates the part of his travels which took him through Nazareth, the plains of the Hauran, Damascus, Tripoli, Lebanon and Balbec to Aleppo. An appendix refutes the charges of plagiarism brought by Burckhardt and Bankes against his Travels in Palestine. - Occasional light foxing and staining, slight offsetting from the engraved map to the titled. A very good copy. - Blackmer 232. Tobler 143. Röhricht 1650. Howgego II, B69, p. 78.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria