Item #109279 Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm Niran Cave. [Contained in] 'The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 42, 1872. Captain Richard Francis BURTON.
Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm Niran Cave. [Contained in] 'The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 42, 1872
Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm Niran Cave. [Contained in] 'The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 42, 1872
Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm Niran Cave. [Contained in] 'The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 42, 1872

Notes on an Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus, and the Umm Niran Cave. [Contained in] 'The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society', Volume 42, 1872

London, John Murray, 1872.

Octavo, pages 49-61 plus a folding map (with the route added in red).

Original blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine; cloth a little rubbed at the extremities, with trifling wear to the head and foot of the spine (a little sunned); edges a little foxed and marked, with the top edge dust-stained; inner hinges and chips to the front flyleaf neatly consolidated; occasional light foxing; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy.

Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore South-Western Australia eastward of the Settled Districts and beyond Hampton Plains (pages 388-390); ELTON, Captain Frederick: Journal of an Exploration of the Limpopo River (pages 1-49); and GRANT, Lieutenant-Colonel J.A.: Summary of Observations on the Geography, Climate, and Natural History of the Lake Region of Equatorial Africa, made by the Speke and Grant Expedition, 1860-63 (pages 243-342, no map issued with this article). We could go on; almost every one of the 21 articles is worthy of individual mention.

Item #109279

Price (AUD): $800.00

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