Picturesque Palestine: Sinai and Egypt in Four Volumes
Author:
WILSON, SIR CHARLES
Title:
Picturesque Palestine: Sinai and Egypt in Four Volumes
Subtitle:
Assisted by the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers with Numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood
Publisher:
JS Virtue & Co Ltd circa 1880
Description:
All volumes professionally and beautifully re-backed utilising original binding to the extent that it is difficult to detect, new eps, original four-page prospectus & testimonials and history of a few subscribers loosely enclosed, four-volume set, quarto, small folio, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to front board & spine & black decorative motifs to spine & front board, new eps, aeg, frontispiece & tissue guard between it & illus title page, x + 240pp (vol 1), vi + 240pp (vol 2), vi + map + 240pp (vol3) vi + map + 236pp + 4pp adverts (vol 4), illus, VG (some rubbing to board edges, slight bruising to board corners, some soiling spots & rubbing to boards, moderate browning to prelims & to tissue guards (but not to engravings), some slight foxing) HEAVY ITEM
Keywords:
HEAVY Sir Charles Wilson Palestine Sinai Egypt travel history scenery architecture cities temples castles ruins
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