CAIRO, PETRA, AND DAMASCUS, IN 1839; with Remarks on the Government of Mehemit Ali, and on the present prospects of Syria.

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FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, small 8vo, pp xi, 348, contemporary half morocco, spine rubbed, internally a crisp clean copy. Kinnear was a member of the well-known family of Scottish bankers and merchants. He had been a member of the Bannatyne Club since 1826, and in 1827 he reprinted at his own expense Gavin Douglas's 'Palace of Honour, 1579'. In 1839 he met David Roberts (q.v.) in Egypt and travelled with him to Mt. Sinai and Petra. This work, dedicated to Roberts, is an account of that journey and of Kinnear's subsequent travels in Syria; it includes a favourable discussion of Mehmet Ali's recently established government in that country. Navari 913; Weber 328; Hilmy I, 342. N° de ref. del artículo 10697

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