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Cloth. Condición: Very Good. A curious composite volume, uniting a celebrated literary hoax about 'the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known' with an early travel account of Egypt and the Holy Land, bound together. In a full cloth binding.Two volumes bound as one. An unusual composite volume combining a well-known work of historical fiction with a contemporary Near Eastern travel narrative. Compromising:1844 Mary Schweidler, The Amber Witch; The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known. Printed from an Imperfect Manuscript by her Father Abraham Schweidler, the Pastor of Coserow, in the Island of Usedom edited by W. Meinhold. Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon.A historical novel presented as a recovered seventeenth-century manuscript, recounting a witchcraft trial in Pomerania during the Thirty Years" War. Later discovered to be a hoax, it was initially received as an authentic document.1845 Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and The Holy Land; Including a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and Through the Country East of the Jordan by the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, and James Mangles. A detailed travel narrative describing a journey through Egypt, the Near East, and the Levant, including a circuit of the Dead Sea. In a full cloth binding.Externally, sound. Blistering to lower perimeter of front board; slight blistering to rear board. Fading to spine and extremities. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot, heavier to first and last few leaves. Very Good. None (ilustrador). book.…