David Roberts' Egypt & The Hold Land
London: The Schuster Gallery, c. 1987. Paperback. illustrations (none full-page), 27, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. Slightly oblong (21 x 20cm.). More
London: The Schuster Gallery, c. 1987. Paperback. illustrations (none full-page), 27, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. Slightly oblong (21 x 20cm.). More
New York: Arno Press, 1977. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, maps (2 folding and 2 double-page), index, 555p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Corner bumped. No Jacket. America and the Holy Land (Arno series). Reprint of the 1879 New York edition. More
London: n.d. [ca. 1851?]. Paperback. 38p. Original wrapper. 22cm. Modest gnawed (or torn) area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket ("Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer"). An illustrated 66-page version was also published..... More
Reading, Pa. Daniel Miller, (1875). Hardcover. Translated from the English. frontis, illustrations, xvi, 448p. Green cloth. 21cm. Covers spotted & rather worn. Foxing. German text (Gothic type). More
London: Nelson, 1872. Hardcover. folding map, index, viii, [9]-94p. Original cloth. 17cm. Cover spotting (heaviest on back cover). Former owner's name. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Hardcover. index, xvii, 337p. Green cloth. 19cm. Stain in lower right corner of margins. Spine edges scuffed. No Jacket. More
Paris: A. Nepveu, 1814. Hardcover. 6 vols. 82 (of 84) hand-colored illustrations, some double-page or folding, and including the 6 frontises, [4]. xvi, 202, [1]; [4], 226, [1]; [4], 254, [1]; [4], 206, [1]; [4], 249, [2]; [4], 269, [3]p. Half-titles preserved; tissue guards not preserved. Later (but not recent)..... More
London: Fisher, Son & Co., n.d. [1836-1838?]. Hardcover. 3 vols. 120 plates (including 3 vignette titles), 2 maps, ii, [3]-80, 76, 100p. Fancy gilt-stamped contemporary leather. All edges gilt.. 27cm. Minor scuffing on backstrip. Carne traveled in the Middle East in the 1820s. This work with its steel-engraved views by..... More
Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, 1839. 1st separate ed.(?). Hardcover. map, 80p. Rebound in modern boards. 20cm. Paper splitting along front joint. Minor browning. More
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812-1816. 1st ed. Hardcover. Part the Second Complete in Three volumes (constituting Vol. 2-4 of the 6 volume First Edition published between 1810 and 1823). 88 (of 89) plates and maps (some folding), xix, (13), 715, xv, (12), 20, 822, xx, [14], 735p. Rebound..... More
New York: Columbia, 1956. First American Edition. Hardcover. index, xvi, 251p. Dark green cloth. 23cm. Cover lightly rubbed. No Jacket. Translated by Walther I. Brandt. More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1931). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. frontis, illustrations, photos, index, 275, 256p.Original blue cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. No Jacket. Laid in is an Autograph Letter, signed by Duncan, discussing this book and his future projects. More
Springfield, Mass: F. A. Basset, (c. 1901). Hardcover. 139p. Burgundy cloth. 20cm. Foxing, mostly on endpapers. Gift inscription. No Jacket. Quite uncommon. More
Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1970. Reprint. Paperback. illustrations, 116p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. Minor chipping on cover edges. Light dampstain around bottom portion of backstrip. Partially unopened. Publications of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum No. 18. First published in 1952. More
New York: Winchester, n.d. [1842?]. Paperback. Translated from the third German edition by William. Howitt. viii, [9]-97p. Softcover in partial original wrapper (front cover only). 23cm. Sound copy with substantial dog-earing, chipping and wear. Text double-columned. His account includes time spent in various parts of Europe (pp. 9-37 and 80-97)..... More
New York: Winchester, n.d. [1842?]. Paperback. Translated from the third German edition by William. Howitt. viii, [9]-97p. Softcover in partial original wrapper (front cover only). 23cm. Sound copy with substantial dog-earing, chipping and wear. Text double-columned. His account includes time spent in various parts of Europe (pp. 9-37 and 80-97)..... More
New Haven: Unitersity Publishing Company, 1879. Hardcover. 2nd title-page in red and gilt, 4 steel engravings (including frontis), numerous woodcut illustratopms, approx. 220 unnumbered pages. Original green cloth. Pictorial cover. Modest foxing mostly confined to the steel engravings and the outer few leaves at the beginning and end. Tear in..... More
Paris: J. Gamber, 1928. Paperback. 92p. Moderately worn original wrapper. 25cm. Browned and rather brittle. Faint institutional stamp on title-page. Unopened. French text. More
New York: Arno Press, 1977. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 303p. Blue cloth. 21cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1858 edition published in Philadelphia. More
Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1914. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), index, vi, (1), 295p. Brown cloth. 20cm. New Zealand, Australia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Europe. More
Geneve: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1889. Paperback. 334p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Moderate browning. Partially unopened. Publications de la Societe de l'Orient Latin. Serie Geographique, V. More
Berlin: G. Grote'sche, 1880. Hardcover. maps, illustrations, viii, 444p. Contemporary 1/4 leather binding. 24cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Joints slightly tender. German text. Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen. Zweite Hauptabteilung, Funfter Theil. More
London: Palestine Exploration Fund's Office, 1927. Paperback. index, vii, 83p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Cover unevenly browned. Translated from an anonymously-authored 16th century Latin manuscript in the possession of the editor. More
Hardcover. 107 photos pasted down, one to five to a page, on one or both sides of almost all leaves in this album. Includes 26 small (3.5 x 5.5 cm.), uncaptioned snapshots on 6 pages. The rest of the photos are larger (mostly ranging from 8.5 x 5 cm. to..... More
London: Printed for the Author by W. Bowyer; and sold by J. and P. Knapton [and many others], 1743-1745. Hardcover. 3 parts (with separate title-pages) bound in 2 vols. 176 (of 178) plates and maps, [16], 310, xi, [1], 268, vii, [1], 308p. Modern (20th century), inexpensive quarterbinding (oddly patterned..... More