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Three travel journals, including: “Voyage en Orient”, 1912
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Three manuscript travel journals, Adkins / Bourne family, including one in French titled a “Voyage en Orient” by Marie Louise Adkins (née Poulin), detailing a trip to Syria and Palestine, with inset photographs and postcards, pressed flowers and leaves from the Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives, and carte postale menus from onboard the Orénoque and the Niger liners, passages such as: "the patriarch entered the sepulchre, lit torches, and directed the flames toward the doorway facing Jerusalem”, 52 pp., card covers with ms. title label, worn, 34 x 32 cm, 1912; with a travel journal covering cities across Spain, Italy, Malta, Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco, inset postcards, including black and white postcard of the passenger steam ship the ‘Carpathia’, description of “many extremely unpleasant occurrences” onboard, cloth, lacking spine, 1910; and a travel journal covering the Lucerne canton of Switzerland, by Kathleen Adkins, inset postcards, cloth, 1922 (3)
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Three travel journals, including: “Voyage en Orient”, 1912

Three manuscript travel journals including French 'Voyage en Orient' by Marie Louise Adkins (née Poulin) detailing Syria/Palestine trip with inset photographs, postcards, pressed Gethsemane/Olives flowers/leaves, Orénoque/Niger liner menus.

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349 €(£300)–465 €(£400)

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Price checked 26/09/2026, 04:57:04

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Lot Details

Lot #
79
Currency
GBP
Lot Ends
1 Oct 2026, 12:00:00
Auction Ends
1 Oct 2026, 12:00:00
Lots in Auction
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