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ROBERTS, David (1796-1864). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly and William Brockedon. London: F. G. Moon, 1846-1849.
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ROBERTS, David (1796-1864). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly and William Brockedon. London: F. G. Moon, 1846-1849.
6 volumes, large 2° (610 x 465mm). Uncoloured lithographic portrait of Roberts by C. Baugniet, list of subscribers, 6 lithographic titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 2 maps and 241 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY LOUIS HAGUE AFTER DAVID ROBERTS, MOUNTED ON CARD. (Some light spotting affecting titles, text, maps and some plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, the covers panelled with rules and roll-tools, spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, g.e., probably by James Hayday, with a short ms. note, dated June 26 1860, bound in before the title in volume I of The Holy Land.
A FINE COPY of Roberts's monumental work on the Middle-East, regarded as 'one of the most important and elaborate ventures of ninteenth-century publishing, and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph' (Abbey p. 341). Abbey Travel 272 and 385; Tooley 401-2. (6)
6 volumes, large 2° (610 x 465mm). Uncoloured lithographic portrait of Roberts by C. Baugniet, list of subscribers, 6 lithographic titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 2 maps and 241 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY LOUIS HAGUE AFTER DAVID ROBERTS, MOUNTED ON CARD. (Some light spotting affecting titles, text, maps and some plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, the covers panelled with rules and roll-tools, spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, g.e., probably by James Hayday, with a short ms. note, dated June 26 1860, bound in before the title in volume I of The Holy Land.
A FINE COPY of Roberts's monumental work on the Middle-East, regarded as 'one of the most important and elaborate ventures of ninteenth-century publishing, and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph' (Abbey p. 341). Abbey Travel 272 and 385; Tooley 401-2. (6)