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
London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea and Co., 1875. 1st ed. Hardcover. 148p. plus (40)p. of Hebrew text. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt.25cm. Lacks backstrip (several jagged pieces preserved). Cover spotting and other wear. Minor foxing and a few small stains in text. Bookplate of Montefiore reproduced on front pastedown..... 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
Glasgow: D. Mackenzie, n.d. [Preface dated 1833 but the paper feels like pulp which suggests a later date]. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 5 steel engravings, xii, 566p. Mid-19th century 1/2 leather. 27cm. Covers worn. Front cover detached. Bookplates and a former owner's name (dated 1852). Contents moderately browned but otherwise sound..... 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: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1968. Hardcover. 12 maps and plates, index, 111p. Original purple cloth. 32cm. Joints split. Backstrip heavily chipped at ends. Front hinge-paper cracked. Contents sound and clean. 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
London: Published for the British Academy by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. Hardcover. frontis map, illustrations, index, vi, 208p. Original black cloth. 25cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. Remnants of library call number on backstrip. Former owner's name. Scattered, mostly minor foxing. No jacket. Schweich Lectures 1923. More
Springfield, Mass: F. A. Basset, (c. 1901). Hardcover. 139p. Burgundy cloth. 20cm. Foxing, mostly on endpapers. Gift inscription. No Jacket. Quite uncommon. More
London: HMSO, 1938. 1st ed. Paperback. 11 (of 13) maps (all but one folding), 310p. Original blue wrapper. 25cm. Moderate soiling, chipping and wear. Lacks Maps 11 (Map illustrating Jewish Proposals with regard to Jerusalem) and 12 (The Proposed Boundary between Jaffa and Tel Aviv), both of which should have..... More
London: Thomas Field, 1764. 1st ed. Hardcover. [2], xv, [1], 446, [24]p. (including, index, adverts and errata). Old, probably contemporary, leather. 20cm. Lacks free endpapers. Former owners' names on end pages and on first page of Index. Modest browning of text. Harmer, minister of an "independent" church in Suffolk (Great..... 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