PELLE, Clément & GALIBERT, Léon Voyage en Syrie et dans l'Asie Mineure, illustré par cent-vingt magniphiques gravures sur acier. D'après les dessins pris sur les lieux par W. H. Barlett, Thomas Allom, etc, etc. Londres / Paris: Fisher, Fils & Cie, 1840. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Half leather with marbled boards, and gilt-stamped title to spine. Complete. 120 full-page steel engraved plates - tissue guards and frontis. Volume I: 99, Volume II: 76, Volume III: 83 pp. Spine and boards are quite worn. There is residue of glue left from an ex libris having been removed from the FFEP. The book block has started to become loose from the front board / spine. Held neatly now with tape (see photographs), but would benefit from being restored. Sporadic light foxing throughout. 290 x 225 mm (11½ x 8¾ inches). 120 plates out of text engraved on steel, including on the frontispiece of volume I, the portrait of the founder of modern Egypt Méhémet Ali, and a map of Syria, Volume I. Alexandria. Portrait of Mehemet Ali. The coasts of Syria. Bethlehem. Jericho The Jordan. Tiberias... Nazareth. St Jean d’Acre. Cape Blanc. Hospitality in Tyre. Scenes from Lebanon..Volume II. Departure from Beirut. Mont Hermin. Arrival in the presence of Damascus. The Great Khan. Tripoli. Eden. Mecca. The island of Ruad. Tortose. Volume III. Surroundings of Antioch. Antioch Mosque. Scanderoon. Plains of Issus.Kalendria. Alaya. Rhodes.. [JUDAICA][ISLAM][SIRIA][SYRIE][SYRIA][JUDAISMO][JUDAISM][JUDAISME]