Syria: The Holy Land and Asia Minor, Illustrated (3 Vol Set)
Author:
CARNE, JOHN (Text) & BARTLETT, W H (Illus) & PURSER, WILLIAM (Illus) & ALLOM, THOMAS (Illus)
Title:
Syria: The Holy Land and Asia Minor, Illustrated (3 Vol Set)
Publisher:
Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co 1842
Description:
3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green textured buckram half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spines, gilt tooling/decoration to spines & boards, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces with tissue guards to vols 1+2, unguarded frontispiece to vol 3, folding maps to prelims of vol 1, maps to prelims of vol 3, plates, mixed pagination, illus/plates - all counted & present with tissue guards, G+ (v heavy chipping/scuffing/bruising to spines & board extrems/edges with some moderate loss, moderate tanning to spines, moderate to heavy staining/fading/discolouration to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, sm ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, moderate fading & water staining to eps, minor cracking to front and/or rear gutters to each vol, light to moderate tanning and/or foxing throughout with moderate water staining to top edges of most pages of each vol)
Keywords:
history culture travel writing literature Syria illustrated Asia Minor religion religious land