- 283
Near and Middle East.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- A collection of 35 volumes, including:
- paper
Madden, R.R. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine. 1829, 2 vol., first edition, 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, contemporary green half calf, spines gilt, a few leaves spotted, lacks half-title in vol.1
Layard, A.H. The Monuments of Nineveh. 1849, folio, vol.1 only (of 2: vol.2 pub. 1853), first edition, 102 plates (including pictorial title), 6 coloured, loose with text in a portfolio of original red cloth, plates with occasional spotting, staining or fraying, binding restored with morocco spine and corners, cloth rather rubbed and soiled
Ibid. Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia. 1887, 2 vol., first edition, 8vo, 2 copies, together 4 vol., half-titles, each copy with 4 plates and 3 maps, original cloth (variants), bindings rather worn, one with new endpapers
Fletcher, J.P. Narrative of a Two Years' Residence at Nineveh, and travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria... second edition. 1850, 2 vol., 8vo, original cloth, spines faded
Beaufort, E.A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines... second edition. 1862, 2 vol., 8vo, 6 coloured plates, folding map, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, binding very slightly rubbed
and 24 others (list available from the Book Department or online at www.sothebys.com)
Layard, A.H. The Monuments of Nineveh. 1849, folio, vol.1 only (of 2: vol.2 pub. 1853), first edition, 102 plates (including pictorial title), 6 coloured, loose with text in a portfolio of original red cloth, plates with occasional spotting, staining or fraying, binding restored with morocco spine and corners, cloth rather rubbed and soiled
Ibid. Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia. 1887, 2 vol., first edition, 8vo, 2 copies, together 4 vol., half-titles, each copy with 4 plates and 3 maps, original cloth (variants), bindings rather worn, one with new endpapers
Fletcher, J.P. Narrative of a Two Years' Residence at Nineveh, and travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria... second edition. 1850, 2 vol., 8vo, original cloth, spines faded
Beaufort, E.A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines... second edition. 1862, 2 vol., 8vo, 6 coloured plates, folding map, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, binding very slightly rubbed
and 24 others (list available from the Book Department or online at www.sothebys.com)
Catalogue Note
The other books in this lot are:
Carne, J. Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor. c.1836, vol.1 and 2 and a small section of vol.3 bound in one vol., 2 engraved titles and 76 plates
Gadsby, J. My Wanderings. Being travels in the East. 1860, 2 vol.
Philby, H.St.J.B. Harun al Rashid. 1933, dust-jacket
Blunt, Lady A. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. 1879, 2 vol.
Phillips, Sir P. Mesopotamia. [1922]
Hume-Griffith, M.E. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia... second edition, 1909
Webb, F.C. Up the Tigris to Bagdad. 1870
Ragozin, Z.A. Media, Babylon and Persia... fourth edition, no date [1889?]
Thompson, R. Campbell. A Pilgrim's Scrip. 1915
Rawlinson, G. The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy. 1876
Stark, F. Alexander's Path. 1988
Joanne, A. and E. Isambert. Itineraire... de l'Orient. Paris, 1861
Mignan, R. Travels in Chaldea. 1829, lacks plate at p.138
Jouannin, J.M. and J. van Gaver. Turquie. Paris, 1840, many plates but some lacking
Smith, G. Assyrian Discoveries. 1875
Feer, H.L. Les ruines de Ninive. Paris, 1864
Albermarle, Earl of. Fifty Years of my Life. 1876, 2 vol.
Rennell, J. Illustrations (chiefly geographical), of the History of the Expedition of Cyrus from Sardis to Babylonia; and the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks. 1816
Perrot, G. and C. Chipiez. Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité... Tome II Chaldée et Assyrie. Paris, 1884
The Buried City of the East, Nineveh. no date [c.1851]
Stafford, R.S. The Tragedy of the Assyrians. 1935
These additional books are sold not subject to return
Carne, J. Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor. c.1836, vol.1 and 2 and a small section of vol.3 bound in one vol., 2 engraved titles and 76 plates
Gadsby, J. My Wanderings. Being travels in the East. 1860, 2 vol.
Philby, H.St.J.B. Harun al Rashid. 1933, dust-jacket
Blunt, Lady A. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. 1879, 2 vol.
Phillips, Sir P. Mesopotamia. [1922]
Hume-Griffith, M.E. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia... second edition, 1909
Webb, F.C. Up the Tigris to Bagdad. 1870
Ragozin, Z.A. Media, Babylon and Persia... fourth edition, no date [1889?]
Thompson, R. Campbell. A Pilgrim's Scrip. 1915
Rawlinson, G. The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy. 1876
Stark, F. Alexander's Path. 1988
Joanne, A. and E. Isambert. Itineraire... de l'Orient. Paris, 1861
Mignan, R. Travels in Chaldea. 1829, lacks plate at p.138
Jouannin, J.M. and J. van Gaver. Turquie. Paris, 1840, many plates but some lacking
Smith, G. Assyrian Discoveries. 1875
Feer, H.L. Les ruines de Ninive. Paris, 1864
Albermarle, Earl of. Fifty Years of my Life. 1876, 2 vol.
Rennell, J. Illustrations (chiefly geographical), of the History of the Expedition of Cyrus from Sardis to Babylonia; and the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks. 1816
Perrot, G. and C. Chipiez. Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité... Tome II Chaldée et Assyrie. Paris, 1884
The Buried City of the East, Nineveh. no date [c.1851]
Stafford, R.S. The Tragedy of the Assyrians. 1935
These additional books are sold not subject to return