Author: Maundrell, Henry.
Title: A JOURNEY FROM ALEPPO TO JERUSALEM, at Easter, A.D. 1697. [Bound with] ALSO, A JOURNAL FROM GRAND CAIRO TO MOUNT SINAI, and Back Again. Translated from a Manuscript Written by the Prefetto of Egypt, By The Right Rev. Robert Clayton.
Description: London: Printed for J. White and Co., 1810. 2 vols. in 1 as issued. [xii] + 282pp. 15 plates including 9 folding. Ex.-libris P L Hussey with two additional family signatures, some age toning with browning to plates, contemporary diced calf, some loss to corners, rebacked with original gilt lettered spine laid down with blind tooled compartments to spine. ¶ ‘Maundrell is best-known for his account [the above first] published in Oxford in 1703, two years after his death. This scholarly narrative describes in detail the journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem and back, made by Maundrell and fourteen others in 1697. His motive was to undertake an Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and the company departed at 3 p.m. on Friday, 26 February 1697. Their route took them across northern Syria to Latakia, down the coast to Acre, then to Jerusalem for the Latin Easter, then inland to the valley of the Jordan and Bethlehem, returning to Jerusalem for the Eastern churches' Easter. They returned to Aleppo via Damascus, Tripoli, and the earlier part of their outward route, returning to Aleppo on 18 May.’ ODNB

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