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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). FORSTER, CHARLES. Sinai Photographed or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Desert. With an Appendix [The Hamyaritic Inscriptions]. First Edition . English interspersed with Hebrew and Arabic. With original mounted albumen photographs by the British photographer A.J. Brown, maps and engravings. Frontispiece photographic portrait. pp. 20, 352. Light wear, some buckling of plates. Original boards, needs rebinding. Folio. Sold not subject to return. London, Richard Bentley, 1862. First edition of Forster’s study of the Hebrew inscriptions found in the Sinai Desert, documenting his belief that these were the actual writings of Moses and the Israelites on their flight from Egypt.