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JOSEPH H. CHURI
Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia: travels in company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851-1851. London: Petter & Galpin for the author, 1853. 8° (221 x 138mm). Collation: [A]6 B-U8 V6. Wood-engraved frontispiece. (Section of blank margin of frontispiece excised, browned, margins somewhat brittle.) Modern leatherette-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Mercantile Library, New York (stamp on title, and some subsequent leaves).
FIRST EDITION. RARE. Churi, a Lebanese Maronite christian, according to his own account, trained at the 'College of Propaganda, in Rome' from 1842 to 1849. He left and made his way to London, where he gave lessons in Arabic, Latin, Italian and Hebrew. Captain W.Peel was amongst his pupils and persuaded him to accompany him on a tour of the Middle East between October 1850 and February 1851. The present work is an account of a second journey the pair undertook between August 1851 and February 1852.
Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia: travels in company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851-1851. London: Petter & Galpin for the author, 1853. 8° (221 x 138mm). Collation: [A]6 B-U8 V6. Wood-engraved frontispiece. (Section of blank margin of frontispiece excised, browned, margins somewhat brittle.) Modern leatherette-backed marbled boards. Provenance: Mercantile Library, New York (stamp on title, and some subsequent leaves).
FIRST EDITION. RARE. Churi, a Lebanese Maronite christian, according to his own account, trained at the 'College of Propaganda, in Rome' from 1842 to 1849. He left and made his way to London, where he gave lessons in Arabic, Latin, Italian and Hebrew. Captain W.Peel was amongst his pupils and persuaded him to accompany him on a tour of the Middle East between October 1850 and February 1851. The present work is an account of a second journey the pair undertook between August 1851 and February 1852.