Robinson,E.
Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petreae. A Journal of travels in the year 1838. 3 vols. Ldn. 1841. 8°. With 5 several times folded, border coloured. Maps. Gr.8vo. Softcover d . (Stronger signs of age, partly damaged). First edition of the "epoch-making" work (Meyer). The American Palestine researcher (1794-1863) undertook extensive archaeological expeditions to the "Holy Land", reconstructed among other things the temple complex in Jerusalem and recognized in the arch named after him the bridge to the upper city. In 1856 still the "Newer Biblical Researches in Palestine" appeared. - St.a.front fl. endpaper, foxing.
