Lot 324
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SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. London: G.S. Tregear, 1823. 4° (285 x 214mm), hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 plates by W. Stack after Spilsbury. (Offsetting to text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, sides with scroll-work border in gilt and blind, gilt-panelled spine (spine faded, front cover scuffed and bumped, extremities rubbed).
SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. London: G.S. Tregear, 1823. 4° (285 x 214mm), hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 plates by W. Stack after Spilsbury. (Offsetting to text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, sides with scroll-work border in gilt and blind, gilt-panelled spine (spine faded, front cover scuffed and bumped, extremities rubbed).

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SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. London: G.S. Tregear, 1823. 4° (285 x 214mm), hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 plates by W. Stack after Spilsbury. (Offsetting to text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, sides with scroll-work border in gilt and blind, gilt-panelled spine (spine faded, front cover scuffed and bumped, extremities rubbed).

Third edition, with plates copied in a smaller but still impressive size. Atabey 1169 (this copy, with binding illustrated); cf. Abbey Travel II, 381.

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