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Addison (Charles Greenstreet) Damascus and Palmyra: a journey to the East, 2 vol., first edition, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, bound without half-titles, scattered faint spotting, ex-University of Minnesota Library with usual labels and blind-stamp to titles, abrasion marks to final free endpapers where label removed, vol. 1 upper hinge strengthened, contemporary red calf, gilt, g.e., lacking spine labels, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 9], 8vo, 1838.

⁂ "The plates are after drawings by William Thackeray, lithographed by G.E. Madeley... Thackeray, who had studied art in Paris, also visited the East and in 1846 produced, anonymously, 'Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo', with his own drawings." (Atabey)

Description

Addison (Charles Greenstreet) Damascus and Palmyra: a journey to the East, 2 vol., first edition, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, bound without half-titles, scattered faint spotting, ex-University of Minnesota Library with usual labels and blind-stamp to titles, abrasion marks to final free endpapers where label removed, vol. 1 upper hinge strengthened, contemporary red calf, gilt, g.e., lacking spine labels, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 9], 8vo, 1838.

⁂ "The plates are after drawings by William Thackeray, lithographed by G.E. Madeley... Thackeray, who had studied art in Paris, also visited the East and in 1846 produced, anonymously, 'Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo', with his own drawings." (Atabey)

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