[Rarebooks] FS: BEKE'S DISCOVERIES OF SINAI IN ARABIA

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Beke, Charles T. Beke, Emily Alston, ed. THE LATE 
DR. CHARLES BEKE'S DISCOVERIES OF SINAI IN ARABIA 
AND MIDIAN. WITH PORTRAIT GEOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, 
AND CONCHOLOGICAL, REPORTS, PLANS, MAP, AND 
THIRTEEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS London: Trübner & Co., 
1878. xviii, [2], 606, [2] pp. Illus. with port. 
frontis, 13 wood engravings, two plates of 
geological diagrams, and one folding map. Sm. 
4to. Red pebbled cloth, boards ruled in gilt, 
gilt illustration on front board, edges beveled, 
all edges gilt, brown endpapers.  First edition. 
Errata slip tipped in. Blackmer 109. Blackmer 
Sale 1150. Hilm: Literature of Egypt and the 
Soudan I, p. 58.

Narrative of the 1874 expedition of Charles 
Tilstone Beke (1800-1874), an English explorer 
and Biblical scholar, to Egypt in order to 
determine the real position of Mount Sinai which 
he thought to be a volcano. The first three 
chapters were written by Beke with the entire 
work edited by his wife. It is perhaps his most 
important book. "Dr. Beke treats of the 
traditional Mount Sinai, and its rivals within 
the Peninsula of Pharau; of the non-identity of 
the Mltzrulm of Scripture with the Egypt of 
profane history, its position, and that of the 
I*and of Midian, and of the dynasties of Manetho, 
and especially those of the shepherd kings, or 
Mitzrites. The account of the expedition Itself, 
and of Dr. Beke's sojourn In Egypt, is given in 
Dr. Beke's very characteristic letters on his 
last journey." Provenance: Library of the Bangor 
Theological Seminary (their gift bookplate) [from 
Library of] Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (his 
signature dated 1879). Hitchcock (1817-1887) was 
a pastor, educator, and vice president of the 
American Geographical Society.

Rebacked in red cloth with original spine laid 
down, seminary gift bookplate on front pastedown, 
glue marks on rear pastedown where pocket was 
removed, small repair to inner edge and outer 
margin of map; plates bright without foxing, a 
very good copy.  [36390] $850.00

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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