Hilda Frances Margaret. Once to Sinai. The further pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri.

by PRESCOTT

£100 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

PRESCOTT, Hilda Frances Margaret. Once to Sinai. The further pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri. London: Eyre Spottiswode. 1957. 8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 310, plates and sketch maps; head of spine of the wrappers with slight loss, light offsetting to endpapers, a little spotting to edges, otherwise very good. Scarce first edition of historian and historical novelist Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott's (1896-1972) travelogue based on Swiss Dominican friar and theologian Felix Fabri's (1441-1502) Evagatorium , recording his second pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which led him to Sinai and Egypt as well. Inbetween travelogue and historiography, this is a lively account and re-telling of Fabri's experience in the Middle East. SKU: 2120794

• Binding: Hardcover

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