The development of Palestine exploration. Being the Ely lectures for 1903

by Frederick Jones Bliss

$40 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, 3 , 337, 1 , 6 ads; very good, sound and clean copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Tiny ownership signature of Moses Bailey on front free endpaper. Bliss 1859-1937 was an American archaeologist. Wikipedia notes that he trained under Flinders Petrie in Egypt, and became involved with the Palestine Exploration Fund working in the field of Biblical archaeology at

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