1901 A Winter Pilgrimage: Being An Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty images across twenty-three plates. Collated complete. A detailed and descriptive travelogue of the author's time spent traveling through Palestine, Italy, and Cyprus in the year 1900. With chapters on Milan, Tuscan wine fames, Pompeii, Amathus, Famagusta, Nazareth, Jaffa, and more. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Bound without publisher's catalogue to the rear.
Condition
In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the rear board. Small splits in the cloth to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Scattered spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown.
Very Good
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