Author: PORTER, J(osias) L(eslie).
Title: The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places.
Description: London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. Original pictorial green cloth gilt (waterstained). With lithographed frontispiece and 6 lithographed plates. V,371 pp. First published in 1865. - Porter spent 10 years in Syria and travelled extensively. Very popular description of the massive buildings to be found in Bashan and an account of his theory explaining their construction. Porter believed that the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, before its occupation by the Jewish tribes, had constructed these buildings. - (Foxing). Blackmer Collection 1334; Rohricht p.468; Tobler p.189; Not in the Atabey Collection.
Keywords: Middle East Syria
Title: The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places.
Description: London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. Original pictorial green cloth gilt (waterstained). With lithographed frontispiece and 6 lithographed plates. V,371 pp. First published in 1865. - Porter spent 10 years in Syria and travelled extensively. Very popular description of the massive buildings to be found in Bashan and an account of his theory explaining their construction. Porter believed that the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, before its occupation by the Jewish tribes, had constructed these buildings. - (Foxing). Blackmer Collection 1334; Rohricht p.468; Tobler p.189; Not in the Atabey Collection.
Keywords: Middle East Syria
Price: EUR 104.50 = appr. US$ 113.58 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 31715
- Book number: 31715