2 vols. 4to. (33 x 26 cm). pp. x+480; x+476. Original half dark brown morocco over matching cloth boards, titled in gilt on upper cover and spines, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 2 chromlithograped maps, 2 engraved titles and 38 steel engraved views (including 2 frontispieces), c.470 vignette illustrations (almost every leaf of text illustrated either verso or recto). Some light shelfwear, generally a very good handsome set. A beautiful and exhaustive work exploring several areas of the Levant, including territories of modern day Israel and Egypt, as well as parts of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The work was overseen and edited by Sir Colonel Charles William Wilson, a British military officer and geographer. He was 'assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers' who include Major Claude Reignier Conder, Miss M. E. Rogers, Canon Tristram, Charles Warren, E. H. Palmer, Selah Merill and others. In 1855 Colonel Wilson obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers and in 1864 first arri