Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem,Rare 1703 1st Edition Fine Leather Binding,Folding Maps,Prints,Very Good Cond Start Price USD 3,995.00 Current Price USD 3,995.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 18, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 18, 2008 Location Northern NY ,zip 12801 See more about 'Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem,Rare 1703 1st Edition' Description Printed at the Theater, Oxford, 1703. Full-Leather. Book Condition: Good/VG. First Edition. 12 mo, 7 1/2 by 4 3/4, 142 pages, plus 7 unpag pps letters of testimony. Fresh, and historically accurate full calf binding by Fitterer, banded, with gilt lettering and decoration. Foxing to engraved title page, replaced front and rear blank prelims, otherwise, tightly bound, with 9 plates, most folding. This is actually an uncharacteristically fine copy of a most elusive book in travel and exploration. Plates are uniformly excellent, unsplit foldouts, very sharp impressions, any foxing is minor. Pages have scattered foxing, mostly trivial, and are generally clean. A rare first edition, uncatalogued by WorldCat / OCLC, although subsequent editions are well represented. Arguably the most important book in the history and culture of travel, Maundrell writes of his three month journey in a unique way. Previous travel books were generally written from the point of religious fervor, or in vague and fantastic prose, but this book is an accurate description of his travels, his journal, amended for publication, even to precise dimensions of the monuments and sights in his writings and illustrations. This book marks the delineation of the period of tourism per se, previously only for pilgrimages, exploration and the very rich, to the post Maundrell times where more common people could travel for pleasure and excitement, ergo, the start of the modern age of tourism. The book was a posthumous success, 7 editions to 1749, presumably in larger numbers than this first, somewhat heretical, edition. Moreover, Aleppo's success coloured almost all travelogues from nearly the first day it was printed, its style was a quick winner, and latter authors were quick to sense this maturation in the taste's of the buying public. A rare first edition of a fundamentally important work.   Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.119.0 Place a Bid!