Prisse d'Avennes, A.C.T.E. and J.A. St. John.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Oriental Album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life in the valley of the Nile... with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John. London: James Madden, 1851
paper

Second edition, folio (445 x 313mm.), 31 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates, original red half morocco over cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover, gilt edges, [cf. Atabey 1001 and Blackmer 1357 (first editions); Hilmy II, p.142], 2 plates (at p.23 and 37) slightly cut down and backed (supplied from another copy?), some spotting, binding slightly worn