A Winter Pilgrimage: Being An Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this illustrated travelogue from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty images across twenty-three plates. Collated complete. A detailed and descriptive travelogue of the author's time spent traveling through Palestine, Italy, and Cyprus in the year 1900. With chapters on Milan, Tuscan wine fames, Pompeii, Amathus, Famagusta, Nazareth, Jaffa, and more. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Previously held in the library of Vice-Admiral Sir Bouverie Francis Clark, a member of the British Royal Navy who served in the Baltic during the Russian War and was appointed Director of Transports at the Admiralty for the greater part of the Boer War. Publisher's advertisements to the rear dated April 1901 as per the first state, cited from "A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Haggard 1856-1925" by J. E. Scott. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Very Good