with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul.

By Monro, Vere.

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First Edition. 2 volumes bound together. 8vo – 21.3cm. [xiii], 311pp. Period style ¾ calf and marbled boards; five raised bands on spine, bright gilt titles on burgundy and forest-green morocco labels. Internally very clean and complete.

An uncommon and entertaining narrative, commended by the reviewer of The London & Westminster Review as of “more than ordinary merit”; Monro’s “descriptions are spirited and graphic; his style is lively and idiomatic, devoid of stiffness or affectation” and “without making any pretensions to the higher qualities required of a traveller [he] possesses qualifications of another kind, in a degree not possessed by the majority of travellers; an adventurous and determined spirit, and great capability of enduring fatigue and privation” (Volume XXV, June and July 1836).

The London & Westminster Review (April 1836) describes this Monro’s account as “an uncommon and entertaining narrative of more than ordinary merit”… Monro’s “descriptions are spirited and graphic, and his style is lively and idiomatic, devoid of stiffness or affectation”. The lithographic plates show a pilgrim encampment on the banks of the Jordan, and Monro’s bivouac on Mount Lebanon. Monro’s narrative is a desirable nineteenth-century account of this Middle Eastern region. Atabey 827; Blackmer 1148; Rohricht 1833; Weber I, 234.

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