A rare early pre-released chapter from The Holy Land and the Bible. A sample chapter to encourage sales published in The Irving Library IV:193 (January 18, 1888), which also includes advertisements for other publications. Includes six engraved plates to be included in the published work. Worldcat includes an entry for Geikie's work published in 1891. The chapter here published discusses Joppa, noted in the New Testament book The Acts of the Apostles, present-day Jaffa, Israel. Covers slightly bent at corners. Small tears to some edges of text.