A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 / by Hen. Maundrell ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maundrell, Henry, 1665-1701.

Contributor:

Delaune, William, 1659-1728.

Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648-1727.

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736.

Sheldonian Theatre.

Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Palestine.

Syria--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Syria.

Iraq--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Iraq.

Penn Provenance:

Lazard, Bertrand (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Lazard, Paola (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 145 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 10 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Fourth edition, to which is now added an account of the author's journey to the banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the country of Mesopotamia.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed at the Theater, An. Dom. MDCCXXI [1721]

Notes:

Edition statement, printed between parallel rules, precedes the author's name on the title page.

First edition 1703.

"Imprimatur, Guil. Delaune, Vice-Can. Oxon. April 8. 1703."--title page verso.

"Note, that the corrections and additions which were sent by the author after the book was printed off, are in this edition inserted in the body of the book in their proper places."--verso of leaf a2.

"An account of the author's journey from Aleppo to the river Euphrates, the city Beer, and to Mesopotamia" has separate pagination (p. 1-10 at end), but the signatures are continuous.

"Since the book was printed off, the two following letters, relating to the same subject, were communicated by the Reverend Mr Osborn Fellow of Exeter College; to whom they were sent by the author, in answer to some questions propos'd by him."--p. [146]-[152].

Signatures: a² b⁴ A-U⁴ X².

Dedicated by the author to his uncle, Sir Charles Hedges, and to Thomas, Lord Bishop of Rochester.

Engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford on the title page.

The engravings are signed M. Burghers, some with Hawksmoor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

In Holy Land Collections copy, plates [2] and [3], which were printed on a single sheet intended to be cut in half, have been cut and correctly bound following p. 22; in RBC copy the sheet has not been cut and is bound as a single folded plate following p. 20.

Holy Land Collections copy has a ms. note on a preliminary leaf, which reads: "Mr. Maundrell had drawn an exact tract of this journey, with a view of mount Libanus & Anti-Libanus; which should have been prefix'd to this book. It came into the hands of Mr. Masson, who gave it Mr. Reland; and it was inserted by him in his Palaestina, vol. 1. p. 320."

Holy Land Collections copy has 4 leaves inserted at end with ms. notes, including an index and a chronological itinerary of the author's journey.

Holy Land Collections copy has the bookplate of Paola and Bertrand Lazard on the front paste-down endpaper.

Holy Land Collections copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at the Pierre Bergé & associés auction held on April 29, 2008.

Cited in:

ESTC, T100588

Contains:

Account of the author's journey from Aleppo to the river Euphrates, the city Beer, and to Mesopotamia.

OCLC:

9405571