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Lot 21

Group of 11 books by women travelers to the Near East

5 – 15 November 2022, 12:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$200 - US$300

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Group of 11 books by women travelers to the Near East, Comprising Mrs. Sarah Lanman Smith's Memoir (1839); Madame Ida Pfeiffer's A Visit to the Holy Land (1852); Marion Harland's Under the Flag of the Orient (1897); Lady Herbert's Cradle Lands (1867); Lady Frances Egerton's A Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land (1841); Lady Judith Montefiore's Notes from a Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine (1885); Miss L.M. Cubley's The Hills and Plains of Palestine (1860); Mrs. Oliphant's Jerusalem: Its History and Hope (1891); Gertrude Bell's The Desert and the Sown (1907); The Letters of Gertrude Bell (2 vols.); and The Earlier Letters of Gertrude Bell (1937).,

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