[Rarebooks] FS: Strauss's HOLY LAND with over 100 plates including color, 1861
Charles Agvent
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Wed Nov 23 09:10:46 EST 2005
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STRAUSS, Friedrich Adolph und Otto. [HOLY LAND] DIE LAENDER UND
STAETTEN DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT. Stuttgart & Munich: J. G. Cotta 1861.
First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in full publisher's
morocco with heavy gilt decoration and all edges gilt. Illustrated
with 2 maps (one folding and colored), a pictorial title page, and
over 100 steel-engravings, tinted lithographs, and woodcuts,
including 32 printed in color with some hand finishing. The color
plates all have tissue guards and are clean. Occasional spot of
foxing here and there, but a very clean copy of a handsome book.
About Fine with bright, clean plates. $750.00
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