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Roberts | The Holy Land, 1842, 3 volumes bound in 2

Auction Closed

November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 12,000 GBP

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ROBERTS, DAVID

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


3 volumes bound in 2, folio (610 x 430mm.), lithographed frontispiece portrait of Roberts, 3 tinted lithographed pictorial titles, 60 plates and 60 half-page illustrations, engraved map, contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt, gilt edges, some spotting, text on p. 21 (vol.1) inverted (printer's error), without list of subscribers, extremities of bindings rubbed, bumps to edges


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