including a Journey from Nazareth to the mountains beyond the Dead Sea, and from thence through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and by the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo. With an Appendix, containing a refutation of certain unfounded calumnies industriously circulated against the author of this work, by Mr. Lewis Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and the Quarterly Review.
First edition. With a folding frontispiece map and 28 woodcut chapter headings. 4to. Contemporary half calf, with marbled paper boards, end papers and edges, the spine with raised bands decorated in gilt and contrasting red morocco letterpiece, very rubbed and worn. Map and title page browned. Bookplate to upper pastedown and ffep, some ephemera from the former owner loosely inserted. xvi, 669, [1]pp. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
With a plate from a different work mistakenly bound in.
This is the second of Buckingham’s publications documenting his travels in the Middle East between 1813 and 1818. It recounts his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and it also contains a map of Palestine and Syria. The appendix is an earnest refutation of the charges of plagiarism brought against his 1821 volume recording the first part of his travels. Buckingham settled in India in 1818 and immediately commenced publication of his Calcutta Journal which openly criticized the East India Company. His opinions were ill received and led to his expulsion from India, after which he settled down and became a prolific writer and lecturer. His works are characterised by an ongoing interest in the social conditions of the countries he visited.
Blackmer 232.
