Travels among the Arab tribes inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine, including a journey from Nazareth to the mou

Travels among the Arab tribes inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine, including a journey from Nazareth to the mountains Beyond the dead sea, a from thence through the plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and 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 the work, by Mr. Lewis Burckhardt, Mr. William John Banker, and the Quarterly Review.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825, 30 x 23 cm., cartoné de época y lomo en tela, mapa plegado + XV + 679 págs. con 28 grabados al comienzo de cada capítulo. (Portada con una pequeña restauración con reconstrucción de 3 o 4 palabras. Ejemplar con grandes márgenes en primera edición. El autor fue un militar que viajó como comerciante y marino por Oriente Medio desde, aproximadamente, 1810. En esta obra describe su viaje desde Nazaret a Alepo y Damasco, y también contiene un apéndice refutando las acusaciones de plagio que se hicieron contra Travels en Palestina, otra de sus obras). (First edition. A German translation was published in Weimar in 1827-8 and in Jena in 1834. In 1821 Buckingham published Travels in Palestine which described the first part of his voyage overland from Egypt to India in 1816-17 via Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia. The Arab Tribes describes the portion of his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and it also contains an appendix refuting the charges of plagiarism which were levelled against Travels in Palestine. Buckingham had been travelling extensively in the Middle East from about 1810 as a sea captain and merchant. After he settled in India he established the Calcutta Journal a publication critical of the East India Company. In 1819, in one of the early issues of this journal, he published an account, together with correspondence, of John Lewis Burckhardt whom he had met in Cairo during the winter of 1813-14. This was reprinted in Phillips' New Voyages and Travels, vol. 2, no. 3. In 1823 he was exiled from India, returned to England, and began a long suit for damages against the Company which he eventually won in 1834. His several books were written in an attempt to cover the expenses of these trials. -V. Blackmer-).