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Title: Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Containing One Hundred Plates and Illustrations. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY
Description: SPCK,, [1907]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker (1838-1913) was famously Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works, including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books, and was active also as a biblical scholar, publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.

Keywords: travel, middle east, holy land, egypt, western asia, sinker, robert sinker, trinity college, trinity college cambridge, cambridge

Price: GBP 166.00 = appr. US$ 237.05 Seller: Island Books
- Book number: 21954

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