First edition. 2 volume. Each volume with a folding frontispiece map, 12 steel engraved plates and a plan of Petra. 8vo. Publisher’s brown blind embossed cloth with gilt title to spine, wormhole damage to outer spines. Some occasional light foxing as usual, plates slightly browned from tissue guards offsetting. Bookplate to upper pastedown and former owner’s signature to ffep, both volumes. Auction description mounted to lower pastedown, vol. 2. xiv, xi, [13]-458; xii, [13]-478, [vi]pp. [publisher’s catalogue]. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1843.
Blackmer 1218: “Olin spent three years in Europe and the East, from 1837 to 1840, though he spent only the months from November 1839 to June 1840 in the Levant. Olin was a Methodist clergyman, and he comments at length on the work of the missionaries in the places he visited. He became president of the Wesleyan College in 1842.”
Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 79.
