Lot 208
Middle East.- Roberts (David) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49.
Hammer Price: £15,000
Description
Middle East.- Roberts (David) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, 3 engraved titles, 61 full page lithographed plates and 59 half page illustrations by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, with extensive fine hand-colouring, 1 map, small ink stamp to each vol at final blank, possibly of Henry Edwards Huntington, occasional spotting, worse to endpapers, contemporary red half morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt spines, repairs to corners, lightly rubbed, [Abbey 385], folio, 1842-49.
⁂ "One of the most important and elaborate [publishing] ventures of the nineteenth century" (Abbey).
Henry Edwards Huntington, (1850-1927), American railroad magnate and rare book collector.
Description
Middle East.- Roberts (David) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, 3 engraved titles, 61 full page lithographed plates and 59 half page illustrations by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, with extensive fine hand-colouring, 1 map, small ink stamp to each vol at final blank, possibly of Henry Edwards Huntington, occasional spotting, worse to endpapers, contemporary red half morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt spines, repairs to corners, lightly rubbed, [Abbey 385], folio, 1842-49.
⁂ "One of the most important and elaborate [publishing] ventures of the nineteenth century" (Abbey).
Henry Edwards Huntington, (1850-1927), American railroad magnate and rare book collector.
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