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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.