Laborde, Léon de.

First edition, folio (570 x 390mm.), half-title, dedication leaf and plate list, illustrations in text, lithographed illustration on india paper on title, 69 plates, maps and plans, mostly lithographed on india paper, a few double-page or folding, one coloured by hand, fine nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges, [Blackmer 929]

An extremely fine copy of an important work.

Travelling from Cairo in 1828 by way of Suez, Tor, Mount Sinai, the convent of Saint Catherine and Aqaba, Laborde made the journey to Petra with the engineer Linant de Bellefonds, executing many drawings of the area, providing the earliest pictorial record of the ruins.