PRISSE, Achille C.T.E. and James Augustus ST. JOHN. Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. London: James Madden, 1848. 2° (438 x 375mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece and 30 tinted plates, illustrations in the text. (Lacks the chromolithographed additional title, some dampstains at beginning and end, lightly waterstained throughout.) Later red roan-backed boards (rebacked and repaired, rubbed). Provenance: Chelsea Public Library (bookplate  and cancelled library stamp). Colas 2427; Lipperheide 1599.
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PRISSE, Achille C.T.E. and James Augustus ST. JOHN. Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. London: James Madden, 1848. 2° (438 x 375mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece and 30 tinted plates, illustrations in the text. (Lacks the chromolithographed additional title, some dampstains at beginning and end, lightly waterstained throughout.) Later red roan-backed boards (rebacked and repaired, rubbed). Provenance: Chelsea Public Library (bookplate and cancelled library stamp). Colas 2427; Lipperheide 1599.

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PRISSE, Achille C.T.E. and James Augustus ST. JOHN. Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. London: James Madden, 1848. 2° (438 x 375mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece and 30 tinted plates, illustrations in the text. (Lacks the chromolithographed additional title, some dampstains at beginning and end, lightly waterstained throughout.) Later red roan-backed boards (rebacked and repaired, rubbed). Provenance: Chelsea Public Library (bookplate and cancelled library stamp). Colas 2427; Lipperheide 1599.
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