Feb 13, 2003 - Sale 1960

Sale 1960 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
THOMSON, WILLIAM McCLURE. The Land and the Book. Wood-engraved fronstispieces; numerous full-page and text illustrations; 2 folding maps; folding plan of Jerusalem. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth. New York, 1860

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"Thomson's The Land and the Book is a description of Palestine and southern Syria in the form of journals of travel, with constant reference to the Bible . . . it preserved faithful descriptions of Palestinian life while it was as yet little affected by western civilization" (DAB). Smith T49 (1859 original edition).