SKINNER, Thomas. Adventures during a Journey overland to India, by way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land, London: Richard Bentley, 1837, 2 volumes, 8°, second edition, portrait frontispiece and one plate, contemporary half calf, ruled and tooled in blind. [Blackmer 1547: "Skinner served his entire army career in India. Ths work is an account of a journey made in 1833 via the Persian Gulf overland through Mesopotamia and Palestine into Egypt"] (2)