Mount Lebanon - A Ten Years` Residence from 1842 to 1852: Vol. I & Vol. II [VOLUMES 1 & 2 ONLY of 3].  
  Describing the Manners, Customs, and Religion of Its Inhabitants with a Full and Correct Account of the Druse Religion, and Containing Historical Records of the Mountain Tribes from Personal Intercourse with Their Chiefs and Other Authentic Sources.  

 
Author Colonel Churchill [Charles Henry; Bey]
Place of Publication London
Publication Name Saunders and Otley
Year 1853
Language(s) English
Description
VOLUMES ONE AND TWO ONLY OF THREE. FIRST EDITION of a comprehensive firsthand account of the Druze religion and customs by Colonel Charles Henry Churchill (1807-1869), also known as "Churchill Bey", a British officer and diplomat who was a British consul in Ottoman Syria and created the first political plan for Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel in the region of Ottoman Palestine. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 235x150mm. [XX+390] + [X+398] pages. Embossed cloth Hardcover with gilt spine. Cover rubbed and dirty/slightly stained. Cover corners and edges bumped. Cover corners worn. Spine yellowing, stained, worn, glued and glue-stained. Spine edges and hinges bumped. Spine edges tattered. Pages slightly yellowing and rough-cut. [VOL.I]: Preface pages vii-xviii partly detached from binding. Frontispiece missing. [VOL.II]: Spine bottom edge partly missing. Binding slightly loose and visible between pages 128-129. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on a unique Middle-eastern esoteric monotheistic religious community, written by an eminent British diplomat who resided among the Druzes while being the British consul in Ottoman Syria, is overall in good reading condition.
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Catalog Index Number MS 19 29


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