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ROBERTS, DAVID. Egypt and Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-1849. Engraved map, 3 lithographic titles with hand-colored vignettes, and 121 lithographed plates by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, the plates mounted on card, all finely colored and finished by hand, on linen guards throughout. 3 vols., large broadsheets 608 x 437 mm. (23.7/8 x 17 in.). Contemporary dark burgundy morocco, covers gilt lettered and tooled with stylized Egyptian symbols, surrounded by gilt border, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered in three, g.e., minor rubbing to edges, a few minor abrasions and a tiny worm track to lower cover of vol. III; minor offsetting of some plates.
ROBERTS, DAVID. Egypt and Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-1849. Engraved map, 3 lithographic titles with hand-colored vignettes, and 121 lithographed plates by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, the plates mounted on card, all finely colored and finished by hand, on linen guards throughout. 3 vols., large broadsheets 608 x 437 mm. (23.7/8 x 17 in.). Contemporary dark burgundy morocco, covers gilt lettered and tooled with stylized Egyptian symbols, surrounded by gilt border, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered in three, g.e., minor rubbing to edges, a few minor abrasions and a tiny worm track to lower cover of vol. III; minor offsetting of some plates.

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ROBERTS, DAVID. Egypt and Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-1849. Engraved map, 3 lithographic titles with hand-colored vignettes, and 121 lithographed plates by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, the plates mounted on card, all finely colored and finished by hand, on linen guards throughout. 3 vols., large broadsheets 608 x 437 mm. (23.7/8 x 17 in.). Contemporary dark burgundy morocco, covers gilt lettered and tooled with stylized Egyptian symbols, surrounded by gilt border, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered in three, g.e., minor rubbing to edges, a few minor abrasions and a tiny worm track to lower cover of vol. III; minor offsetting of some plates.

A FINE SUBSCRIBERS COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERTS' MONUMENTAL WORK ON EGYPT AND NUBIA, part of Roberts' Holy Land, but published separately. It was originally published in twenty parts, most parts containing six plates. "One of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, p. 341). Abbey Travel 272; Tooley 402. (3)