Tent work in Palestine : a record of discovery and adventure / by Claude Reignier Conder ; published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund ; in two volumes : with illustrations by J. W. Whymper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910.

Contributor:

Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.

Palestine Exploration Fund.

Richard Bentley and Son.

Billing and Sons.

Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Description and travel.

Palestine.

Palestine--Antiquities.

Genre:

Illustrated books.

Annotations (Provenance) -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Morris, R. M. (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, map, folded plan, plates ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Guildford, Surrey : Billing and Sons, printers.

Place of Publication:

London : Richard Bentley & Son ..., publishers in ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, 1878.

Notes:

The seal of the Palestine Exploration Fund embossed on spine.

Includes indexes.

Illustrated covers.

"List of works consulted": volume 2, pages [347]-348.

Local Notes:

Holy Land Collections copy extra-illustrated: vol. 1 has 82 leaves of plates (3 folded) of ms. notes, commentaries, annotations, bibliographical references, and illustrations, in ink and pencil, and some color, including maps and plans, 4 of the plates of illustrations taken from Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor &c. illustrated (London : Fisher, Son, & Co., 1837), and 3 slips containing additional illustrative matter tipped in; vol. 2 has 66 leaves of plates (3 folded) of ms. notes, commentaries, annotations, bibliographical references, and illustrations, in ink and pencil, and some color, including maps and plans, 1 mounted illustration reprinted from Past and present in the East by the Rev. Harry Jones (London : Religious Tract Society, [1881]), and 6 slips (1 folded) containing additional illustrative matter tipped in. Bookseller's ms. note on front free endpaper suggests possible attribution to "R. M. Morris or R. McMaris"?

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.

OCLC:

9763320