ROBERTS | The Holy Land, 1842-1849, 3 volumes, deluxe edition

DAVID ROBERTS

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849

FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, 3 volumes (2 volumes of plates, one of text), folio (610 x 430mm.), 2 lithographed pictorial titles, 120 lithographed plates, COLOURED BY HAND AND MOUNTED ON CARD, contemporary manuscript captions beneath plates, text volume with plain lithographed portrait of Roberts on india paper mounted, dedication, list of subscribers, contemporary half morocco, bound without vol.3 title and map, some occasional spotting, binding rebacked retaining original spines

LITERATURE:

Abbey, Travel 385

PROVENANCE:

Isi J. Liebler, bookplate