拍品 313
  • 313

DAVID ROBERTS. THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA, 1842-1849, 6 VOLUMES, DELUXE HAND-COLOURED COPY

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100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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描述

  • The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849
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FIRST EDITION, 6 volumes, folio (608 x 423mm.), 6 lithographed pictorial titles and 241 plates by David Roberts, ALL COLOURED BY HAND AND MOUNTED ON CARD, plain lithographed portrait, 2 engraved maps, contemporary red half morocco gilt by J. Regan, gilt edges, occasional slight spotting (mainly to text) and slight cockling to plates, lacking list of subscribers (as often), bindings somewhat worn, soiled and rubbed, spines repaired at head and foot

出版

Abbey, Travel 385 and 272; Bobins I, 160; Tooley (1954) 401-402

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

A GOOD, CLEAN COPY OF THE DELUXE HAND-COLOURED EDITION OF THIS WORK. Roberts's Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, was one of the most elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, providing the most comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Holy Land and Egypt. IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST OFF ALL THE COLOUR PLATE BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.