ROBERTS, DAVID. CROLY, GEORGE.

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ROBERTS, DAVID. CROLY, GEORGE.
THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA. FROM DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT BY DAVID ROBERTS... WITH HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS BY THE REV. GEORGE CROLY... LITHOGRAPHED BY LOUIS HAGHE. VOL. I ET II. London, F.G. Moon, 1842. 2 vol. in folio. Green half-maroquin with back corners, spine with nerves, title, author and tomaison in gold letters on the back, green percaline on the plates delimited by a double gold fillet. Volume 1 : 1 portrait, 1 title frontispiece and 43 engravings including 21 out of text. Volume 2 : 1 title frontispiece and 43 engravings including 21 out of text. Table of plates for the three volumes in volume 1. Original edition of the first two volumes concerning the Holy Land (without the 3 following ones announced in the title). They appeared in issues between 1842 and 1845. Copy with the tinted lithographs mounted on strong paper. According to Abbey (Travel, 385), this set constitutes one of the most important publishing ventures of this kind in the 19th century, and the apotheosis of tinted lithography. The illustrations by David Roberts (1796-1864), who stayed in the region from 1830, are finely interpreted in lithography by Louis Haghe (1806-1885), who here signs his most monumental work. It is one of the most beautiful illustrated works published in the Holy Land. The first two volumes alone are very complete with their plates. Small restorations in the margins of some leaves. Nice state of freshness.
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