[Rarebooks] FS: Roberts' "Holy Land" 3 vols. in 2. One of the greatest 19th c. view books

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Roberts, David. THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA... From Drawings Made 
On the Spot... With Historical Descriptions, by the Revd George Croly. 
Lithographed by Louis Hague. London: F. G. Moon. 1842, 1843, 1849. Oversize folio 
(24-1/2" x 18-1/2"). 3 volumes bound in 2 (the lithographic title page for 
Volume 3, bound at back of Volume 2). Unpaginated letterpress descriptive 
text. Illustrated with 120 tinted lithographic plates, including the 
frontispiece portrait of Roberts (60 plates are full-page and 60 are half-page), 3 
tinted lithographic title pages, and one engraved map. All text & plates are 
on heavy stock paper mounted on guards. Bound in 19th century half red 
pebbled morocco, gilt, over red cloth, spines rubbed. A.e.g. Front hinges of 
Volume 1 starting to crack, but still quite sound. As with many copies, some of 
the leaves are lightly sprung. A particularly clean copy, with almost no 
foxing to the plates.     $27,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The 3 volumes of "The Holy Land" only, without the 3 volumes of "Egypt & 
Nubia." Without a doubt the greatest view-book of the Holy Land in the 19th 
century and a monument in publishing history. See Abbey, TRAVEL #385.

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