The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel.
WARBURTON (Eliot).

The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel.

First edition. 2 vols. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece, a few in-text illustrations. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt spines and marbled paper boards and edges, contrasting title labels, extremities worn and vol. 1 only rebacked and with endpapers renewed. Bookplate to upper pastedown of vol. 2 only. xvi, 389; viii, 433pp. London, Henry Colburn, 1845.

£250.00
WARBURTON (Eliot).
The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel.

Blackmer 1771 (citing a defective mixed edition): “In 1843 Warburton made an extended tour of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He wrote accounts of his travels for the Dublin University Magazine, then under the editorship of Charles Lever, who persuaded him to make a book out of them. The work achieved great popularity….”

Abbey, 363 (citing the third edition).

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