BUCKINGHAM, J.S. [James Silk] - Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine, Including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains Beyond the Dead Sea, and from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter headings; crease to upper corner of pp.xiv-17, toning to title/map, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. Includes Appendix, ‘Containing a Refutation of Certain Unfounded Calumnies Industriously Circulated Against the Author of this Work, by William Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and The Quarterly Review’, in which Buckingham seeks to confute the accusations of plagiarism brought against him.

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