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Women in the Holy Land. Five Titles in Seven Volumes from the 19th Century. Including:
1) Miss L.M. Cubley's The Hills & Plains of Palestine, London: Day & Son, 1860, small folio, illustrated throughout with lithographs after Cubley's original sketches, frontispiece, illustrated title, and twenty-eight full page plates; bound in publisher's full cloth, elaborately gilt, spine sunned, some leaves becoming detached.
2) Hannah Zeller's Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. Fifty-four Plates printed in Colours, Drawn and Painted after Nature, London: James Nisbet, 1883, third edition, small folio, illustrated with 54 color plates, bound in publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, aeg., leaves disbound and loose, an adhesive binding that has failed.
3) Harriet Catherine Egerton (nee Greville), Countess of Ellesmere [Lady Francis Egerton]'s Journey of a Tour in the Holy Land in May & June, 1840, London: Printed by Harrison & Co., 1841, octavo, printed for private circulation, illustrated with frontispiece and 3 full page plates, bound in publisher's green cloth.
4) Harriet Martinaeau's Eastern Life Present & Past, London: Edward Moxon, 1848, three octavo volumes, bound in uniform publisher's cloth, worn, some boards detached, losses to endcaps, joints frayed.
5) Caroline Paine's Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859, illustrated with frontispiece, ex library, with stamps; bound in modern full cloth, contents soiled. (7)
