Bringing the Middle East to England, Owned by J. Meredith Read : Maundrell - A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem (1721)

Maundrell, Henry. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, At Easter A. D. 1679. The Fourth Edition to which is now added an Account of the Author’s Journey to the Bank of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, MDCCXXI [1721]. (200 x 135 mm) pp. x, 1-145, [7], 1-10. The account has separate pagination but the register is continuous: a2, b4, A-U4, X1. Plates on pp. 1, 21, 22,  51, 54, 114, with seven folding plates for p. 135. Engravings within text on pp. 37, 77.  Wants frontispiece of “The Prospect of Aleppo.”  Contemporary Cambridge panel binding, in full leather, with modern intervention along the spine. Bookplate of General Meredith Read, Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, FSA on pastedown. Bookplate of Judge John M. Read, LLD, Philadelphia. Ownership marking on second (original) fly leaf of W. Robinson 1738.  Overall VERY GOOD condition despite lack of frontispiece and spine repair. ESTC T100588 Cox 219 About the Book & Author: He