My wanderings : being travels in the East in 1846-47, 1850-51, 1852-53

Alternate Title:

J. Gadsby's wanderings

Name:

Gadsby, John, 1809-1893; Welland, James; Yates & Alexander

Date:

1880

Description:

Introductory. -- London to Malta. -- Malta. -- Malta to Athens. -- Greece. -- Greece to Constantinople. -- Constantinople. -- Smyrna. -- Smyrna to Ephesus. -- Ephesus. -- Ephesus to Smyrna. -- Smyrna to Alexandria. -- Egypt. -- Cairo. -- Egypt. -- Thebes to Ethiopia. -- Return to Cairo. -- Preparations for the desert. -- The desert. -- Beersheba to Jerusalem. -- Jerusalem. -- Jerusalem to Jericho. -- Jericho to the Jordan, the Dead Sea, Bethany, and Jerusalem. -- Jerusalem to Beyrout. -- Beyrout to Malta. -- Malta to England. -- London to Gibraltar, &c. -- Malta to Rome. -- Rome. -- Rome to Florence. -- Florence to Venice. -- Venice, Verona, &c. -- Postscript.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Lazard, Bertrand (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy); Lazard, Paola (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Publisher:

Gadsby ..

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century; Autobiographies

Physical Description:

594 pages, 30 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, map; 19 cm

Geographic Subject:

Middle East -- Description and travel; Middle East; Palestine -- Description and travel; Egypt -- Description and travel; Egypt; Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel; Mediterranean Region; Europe -- Description and travel; Europe

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

"Twenty-third thousand.--Revised."--title page.; "This volume is complete in itself, but a second volume has been published, containing the author's travels in the East in 1855-56, 1859-60 (on the latter occasion with the late Mrs. Gadsby) ..."--title page.; Includes indexes: p. [1]-[29] at end.; Folded plate is a colored map of the "lands of the Bible with the countries adjacent" and with an inset map of the Holy Land, signed "published by John Gadsby ... 1855" and "engraved by James Welland".; Advertisements for other books written and published by, as well as a "carte de visite" and a "portrait" of, the author, on p. [30] at end.; Holy Land Collections copy has the bookplate of Paola and Bertrand Lazard on the front paste-down endpaper.; Holy Land Collections copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at the Pierre Bergé & associés auction held on April 29, 2008.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, DS48 .G33 1880

Collection:

Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)