Author: LYNCH, W(illiam) F(rancis).
Title: Togt door het Heilige Land, vooral tot onderzoek der Jordaan en der Doode Zee. Naar den 6e druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door J.P. Stricker.
Description: Dordrecht, P.K. Braat, 1855. 2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces after L. de Koningh by F. Böger and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,251; XII,263,(1) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Philadelphia in 1849: Narrative of the United States' expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead Sea.- The official report was not published until 1852. Lynch carried out the first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Ephesus, Smyrna and Constantinople were also visited. Blackmer Collection 1043 (English ed.); Rohricht p.432; Tobler p.176; Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM.

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