CARNE, John. Syria, the Holy Land & Asia Minor illustrated.

3 volumes bound as 2, 4ο (275 x 210 mm.), 80 + (6-60) and (61-76) + 100 pp. (light spotting mainly to the margins of a few plates, faint offsetting of a few plates to opposite text leaves). Steel-engraved frontispiece in vol. I (portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt), Steel-engraved extra title in all volumes, 2 maps and 117 Steel-engravings after W. H. Bartlett, William Purser, Thomas Allom et al. Contemporary full calf (two tears to the joints of the second volume, minor wear, remains of gilt decoration on spine, gold and blind tooling to the covers, edges gilt, endpapers marbled). Blackmer 291, Ioannou pp. 78, Atabey 199, Weber, I, 1125, Contominas 124. (2) --- BEAUTIFUL BINDING. The work includes views of Rhodes (4), Syros (1) and Castellorizo (1). ο Author: CARNE, John. Title: Syria, the Holy Land & Asia Minor illustrated. Publication info: Λονδίνο, Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co., [1842].

Estimate:£251.34

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