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SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. London: B. R. Howlett for Thomas M'Lean, 1819.
2° (463 x 314mm). Title, dedication, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Jeakes, Stadler, Merke and Vivares after Spilsbury and Daniel Orme. (Plate of 'A Market in Acre' with clean tear along plate-mark, plate of 'Jezzar Pacha' with light offsetting, a few plates with lower margins just trimmed into plate-mark area, not affecting text or image.) Contemporary blue half morocco (extremities rubbed). Second edition. Tooley 464; cf. Abbey Travel 381. -- WILLYAMS, Cooper (1762-1816). A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca and Gibralter, from the original drawings executed during a visit to those places. London: J.F. Dove for John Hearne, 1822.
2° (390 x 308mm). Title, list of plates, 36 aquatint plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, mainly by J.C. Stadler after Willyams. (A little light marginal spotting to text, plate of Landing-place at Syracuse with small paint spot in margin.) Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards (slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 198; Lipperheide Cm 2.
2° (463 x 314mm). Title, dedication, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Jeakes, Stadler, Merke and Vivares after Spilsbury and Daniel Orme. (Plate of 'A Market in Acre' with clean tear along plate-mark, plate of 'Jezzar Pacha' with light offsetting, a few plates with lower margins just trimmed into plate-mark area, not affecting text or image.) Contemporary blue half morocco (extremities rubbed). Second edition. Tooley 464; cf. Abbey Travel 381. -- WILLYAMS, Cooper (1762-1816). A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca and Gibralter, from the original drawings executed during a visit to those places. London: J.F. Dove for John Hearne, 1822.
2° (390 x 308mm). Title, list of plates, 36 aquatint plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, mainly by J.C. Stadler after Willyams. (A little light marginal spotting to text, plate of Landing-place at Syracuse with small paint spot in margin.) Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards (slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 198; Lipperheide Cm 2.