Delessert E., "Voyage aux villes Maudites", Paris, 1857. Fourth edition of a classical travel account around Dead sea. In 8vo (18x12cm), pp. 280. Contemporary leather over boards, spine richly gilt, some scattered spotting, very good. Delessert travelled in the Levant in the 1840s in an effort to locate the ancient sites of Sodoma and Gomora.