Tan leather spine and corners with green and brown title plates, gilt banding and lettering. Red, blue and tan marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume.

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FIRST EDITION

A book deserving to be read

Altiora Peto rises far above the level of mediocrity, and may be characterised as a novel in a thousand

A novel written in Oliphant’s “Piccadilly” style during his sojourn at Haifa . Considered one of the author’s “cleverest” works.

Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his scheme for planting Jewish farming colonies in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Oliphant was a UK Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs.