Henry Maundrell — A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, a D. 1697; Also, a Journal, from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and Back Again

London, J. White and Co. 1810. Cloth. The eighth edition of this classic travel journal from Henry Maundrell, recounting his journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. With folding plates. The eighth edition of this work. In a contemporary cloth binding, with hinges reinforced and archival repair to the front free endpapers.Illustrated with fifteen engraved plates, nine of which are folding, including a frontispiece view of Aleppo. Collated, complete. Maundrell was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman, who served from late 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria.  This work has become an often reprinted "minor travel classic", originating from the diary held by Maundrell on his Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1697. Maundrell left Aleppo in a company of fifteen men, their circuit taking them to Latakia and to the ruinous state of Acre before proceeding inland to Jerusalem, where they attended Latin rite Easter services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A further travel journal is appended with this edition, 'A Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the County of Mesopotamia&apos. In contemporary cloth binding, with hinges reinforced and archival repair to the front free endpapers. Externally, with damp stains and discolouration to the cloth, with notable darkening to the spine. Loss to the spine head and further rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate of one Francis E. B. Witts to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with occasional spotting, heaviest to the endpapers and to the plates. Offsetting to the title page caused by frontispiece. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .