Advice for John Palmer when travelling in the Near East. English, c. 1804

A book of advice and 'usefull hints' written for John Palmer, Fellow of St John's College and Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge (1769-1840), perhaps before his tour of the Levant in 1805-7 (see S.74). It combines advice on diet with a list of 'the most remarkable places in the Levant and directions for visiting them'. The James catalogue tentatively attributes this work to 'Colonel Leake', presumably William Martin Leake (1777-1860), the classical topographer and numismatist, who was in England between January 1803 and September 1804.