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Prisse d'Avennes, Achille Constant Theodore Emile and James Augustus St. John.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile... with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John. London: James Madden, 1851
Second edition, folio (427 x 310mm.), 30 (of 31) partly hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates, original green half morocco, lacking one plate, somewhat dampstained (mostly marginal) and spotted, some edges chipped, binding worn, sold not subject to return
Literature
cf. Atabey 1001 and Blackmer 1357 (both first editions); Hilmy II, p.142