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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan

[Robert Wood] | The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria, London, 1757, contemporary diced russia

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

December 12, 11:28 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

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[Robert Wood] 


The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria. London, 1757


FIRST EDITION, folio (547 x 368mm.), 46 engraved plates by P. Foudrinier and Thomas Major after G.B. Borra, some folding, contemporary diced russia gilt, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, marbled endpapers, marginal browning and dampstaining, lacking morocco label to second compartment, extremities rubbed


"With the Ruins of Balbec following Palmyra in 1757, Britain was firmly placed in the forefront of archaeological studies" (Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers).


LITERATURE:

BAL RIBA 3706; Blackmer 1835; Fowler 444; Harris 936; Cohen-de-Ricci 916; Röhricht 1449; not in Atabey

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