[Volumes 1 & 2] The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia
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Date: 1855
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Inquisitive Western minds first glimpsed the mysteries of Egypt and the Middle East in detail through David Roberts' folio-sized Holy Land, issued in 41 parts from 1842 to 1849 and containing 250 full-page hand-colored lithographs produced from his magnificent, on-site drawings.
Roberts was the first Westerner to be granted permission to enter whichever sacred mosque or monument he desired. His images of these sacred places established what many people even today envision as the aura of Egypt and the Holy Land. "Roberts' Holy Land has a world-wide reputation; nothing of a similar character has ever been produced that can bear a comparison with it" (Ran, 6). Louis Haghe, considered the foremost lithographer of his time, transferred the exquisitely detailed drawings to stone.
Six volumes in three: v. 1. Jerusalem and Galilee -- v. 2. The Jordan and Bethlehem -- v. 3. Idumea and Petra -- v. 4-6. Egypt
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This is the first American edition of 1855-56, containing all 250 lithographic plates contained in the folio edition, including a frontispiece portrait of Roberts, six pictorial title pages, and two engraved maps. The work was originally published 1842, in 2 folio vols., with introduction by Rev. G. Croly. In 1847 combined with "Views in ancient Egypt and Nubia" (1846, introduction by W. Brockedon) and issued under general title "Views in the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea..." Cf. Allibone and Brit. mus. Catalogue
6 v. in 3, 250 leaves of plates : 31 cm
Quarto, contemporary full brown blind-stamped morocco sympathetically re-backed, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Each volume has separate illustrated title page and pagination; plates numbered continuously
A considerable number of plates are printed in two tints; plates 213 and 240 are printed in three. The plates are accompanied by unnumbered leaves of letterpress description, and blank tissue guard-sheets
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Abbey Travel 385, 388; Tooley 401.
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway
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Date Added: 2019-05-14
Haghe, Louis, Roberts, David, The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia Vols. 1 & 2. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway. 1855.
Haghe, Louis, Roberts, David, (1855) The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia Vols. 1 & 2. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway.
Haghe, Louis, Roberts, David, The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia Vols. 1 & 2. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway. 1855.
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