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The caravan route by Ludwig SALVATOR
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Description
SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.
The caravan route
between Egypt and Syria.
Stock Code 112059
London, Chatto & Windus, 1881
Current price$832.00
The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. This was eventually discounted, the preferred option being an expansion of the harbour at Beirut, and the establishment of a rail link from there to Damascus.
First English edition. 8vo, xiv, 68 pp., 23 wood-engraved plates after drawings by the author, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, original pictorial green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed a very good copy. - More Information
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