ROBERTS, David.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.
London: Day & Son , 1855-56.
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ONE OF THE GREATEST LITHOGRAPHIC WORKS EVER PRINTED: BEAUTIFUL COPY OF DAVID ROBERTS’ HOLY LAND, EGYPT AND NUBIA
First quarto edition of this influential illustrated travel book. Six volumes bound in three. Quarto, bound in the original blue cloth with elaborately gilt-decorated spines and front and rear panels with central gilt jerusalem crosses, all edges gilt. Contains 250 magnificent tinted lithographs including two maps. In near fine to very good condition. Historical descriptions by Rev. George Croly. Extremely rare and desirable in the original blue gilt cloth.
“Roberts’ Holy Land has a world-wide reputation; nothing of a similar character has ever been produced that can bear a comparison with it” (Ran, 6). Louis Haghe, considered the foremost lithographer of his time, transferred the exquisitely detailed drawings to stone. This is the first quarto edition of 1855-56, containing all 250 lithographic plates contained in the folio edition, including a frontispiece portrait of Roberts, six pictorial title pages, and two engraved maps. Undoubtedly the most famous of these is Plate 240, the great sphinx, still commonly reproduced in poster art. A considerable number of plates are printed in two tints; plates 213 and 240 are printed in three. See Abbey Travel 385, 388; Tooley 401.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.
$7,500.00
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