Fifty-Three Years in Syria.

JESSUP (Henry Harris, D.D.).

Fifty-Three Years in Syria.

First edition. 2 vols. Both volumes with a portrait frontispiece of the author, a total of 63 full-page illustrations and one full-page map. 8vo. Publisher’s blind embossed cloth with gilt title to spine gilt. Headcap of the first volume clumsily repaired, spines tone, light uniform browning of paper stock, lower endpapers of volume 2 clipped. Bookplate of John Brinton to upper pastedown of volume one, a letter addressed to the Brintons loosely inserted into volume 2, former owner’s signature to ffep. Occasional (colour) pencil annotations. 404; [vi], [405]-832pp. New York, Chicago, etc., Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910.

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JESSUP (Henry Harris, D.D.).

Fifty-Three Years in Syria.

‘Henry Jessup, who came to Syria as a missionary in 1856 and stayed on to become the first president of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut [later the American University], was startled and amused in the 1870’s by people who asked if he had been the first American missionary there. Of course he hadn’t; the first of them were in the Levant in 1820. But along with the early missionaries were an abundant variety of other Americans in the Middle East… the story begins with the headstrong adventurer from Connecticut, John Ledyard, who in 1788 left his lonely bones in Cairo’ (David H. Finnie, Pioneers East: The Early American Experience in the Middle East, 1967, p. 1).

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