Lot 251
  • 251

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount
  • A Journey to Damascus through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Syria. London: Henry Colburn, 1847
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo, (vol.1) viii, 292pp.; (vol.2) vi, 308pp., viii pp. adverts, 10 engraved plates, original blindstamped brown cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase, very faint marking to covers

Provenance

Lord Sinclair, armorial bookplate

Literature

Blackmer 1610 (under Stewart); Tobler p.173; Weber I 395; Hilmy I, p.121; not in Atabey

Condition

A very good copy
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