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Lot 71
FRANCIS FRITH
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FRANCIS FRITH
Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine. Supplementary Volume. London: William Mackenzie, [1862]. 4° (438 x 312mm). 37 albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting, mostly on guards and margins.) Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers damp-stained, extremities lightly rubbed, cloth lifted from top corner of back cover).
The fourth, supplementary volume in Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia. Together the four volumes constitute the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1860. This supplementary volume is 'RARE. THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION HAVING BEEN GOLD-TONED' (Gernsheim). Gernsheim Incunabula 195; cf. The Photobook, p.28 ('ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOBOOKS').
Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine. Supplementary Volume. London: William Mackenzie, [1862]. 4° (438 x 312mm). 37 albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting, mostly on guards and margins.) Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers damp-stained, extremities lightly rubbed, cloth lifted from top corner of back cover).
The fourth, supplementary volume in Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia. Together the four volumes constitute the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1860. This supplementary volume is 'RARE. THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION HAVING BEEN GOLD-TONED' (Gernsheim). Gernsheim Incunabula 195; cf. The Photobook, p.28 ('ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOBOOKS').
FRANCIS FRITH
Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine. Supplementary Volume. London: William Mackenzie, [1862]. 4° (438 x 312mm). 37 albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting, mostly on guards and margins.) Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers damp-stained, extremities lightly rubbed, cloth lifted from top corner of back cover).
The fourth, supplementary volume in Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia. Together the four volumes constitute the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1860. This supplementary volume is 'RARE. THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION HAVING BEEN GOLD-TONED' (Gernsheim). Gernsheim Incunabula 195; cf. The Photobook, p.28 ('ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOBOOKS').
Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine. Supplementary Volume. London: William Mackenzie, [1862]. 4° (438 x 312mm). 37 albumen prints (most c.160 x c.230mm). (Scattered spotting, mostly on guards and margins.) Original green quarter leather, spine in compartments with bands, covers panelled in blind, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges gilt (covers damp-stained, extremities lightly rubbed, cloth lifted from top corner of back cover).
The fourth, supplementary volume in Frith's Egypt, Palestine and Nubia. Together the four volumes constitute the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1860. This supplementary volume is 'RARE. THE PRINTS IN THIS EDITION ARE OF MUCH STRONGER QUALITY THAN THOSE IN THE FIRST EDITION HAVING BEEN GOLD-TONED' (Gernsheim). Gernsheim Incunabula 195; cf. The Photobook, p.28 ('ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOBOOKS').
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