Holy Land Syria Idumea by George Croly (17 results)

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hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volume 3 only; London, 1855; Idumea and Petra; title page is plate 88; includes plates 89-120, with text pages mixed in; plates 121-125 missing and possibly some text pages that accompany these plates; all edges tipped in gold; all pages are loose within blue colored cloth covered boards by The Library of Congress; pages foxed, soiled, toned; additional shipping charges may be required for International orders; 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall; pages unnumbered; Additional shipping charges may be requested.

HC, Full Leather, Red, Gilt. Condition: Good. David Roberts (illustrator). 1855 Edition. Vol #2 comprising vols III & IV. 80 tinted lithographs, some color. Gilt spine title, ft & back box design, dentelles, aeg. Marb end papers. Condition: Head, edges, tips worn, tail damaged, scuffing to covers. Exterior spine edges heavy wear. Wear on spine edges may have been caused by improper packing and transport. Size: 4to 11 3/4 x 8- 1/4. Hardback.

1st quarto edition. 6 vols. in 3. Complete with 2 maps, 242 tinted litho plates (including a portrait of Roberts) and 6 tinted litho title-pages. Original gilt armorial blue cloth binding. 29 cm. This set was recently resewn and recased with hinges reinforced with modern dark binder's tape. All edges gilt. Joints rubbed with some loss of color. The resewing has tightened the volumes so they do not lay flat when opened. All tissue guards present, except between the Roberts portrait and the first tinted litho title-page and preceding the vignette title-page in Vol. 3. Foxing, present on only a minority of leaves, is mostly modest and mostly confined to the margins. Heaviest foxing is on the Roberts portrait frontis -- foxing mostly confined to the margins on the portrait of Roberts but substantial and uniform on the blank side) and on the unprotected vignette title-page in Vol. 3. The yellow endpapers are so clean that it is hard not to wonder if they are modern replacements. Small binder's ticket (Mehling Bookbindery) in lower left corner on rear pastedowns. Small chip on outer margin of the Roberts portrait. A couple of short tears mended with Filmoplast (an adhesive paper mending tape). Two plates identified as frontises on the plate lists are found a few pages into the text rather than facing those title-pages. An appealing set.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 30 x 21 cm, non paginé. Superbe reliure en plein maroquin vert foncé richement orné, avec l'ancien blason du royaume de Jérusalem sur le premier plat. Titre et ornements dorés au dos, dos à 5 nerfs. 6 tomes reliés en 3 volumes (complet). Dos du volume 1 réparé avec papier adhésif transparent. Très légères traces d'usure sur la reliure. 250 lithographies teintées composent cet ouvrage sur le Moyen-Orient qui a marqué l'histoire. Tranches dorées. Text in English.

COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET BOUND IN THREE. RARE elaborate and vast series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East by the eminent Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864), which he produced from sketches he had made during long tours of the region (1838-1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter, and he was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841. [ALL VOLUMES]: 300x220mm. Unpaginated. Half-leather gilt Hardcover with gilt ribbed spine. Text block edges gilt. Marbled endpaper. Cover and spine rubbed and slightly scratched. Cover slightly stained. Cover corners bumped and worn. Cover edges slightly bumped. Spine edges and hinges rubbed. Whitepages and few other pages age-stained. Some pages and plates slightly age-stained (otherwise the plates are in very good condition). Pages slightly yellowing. [VOLS.I-II]: Cover corner and spine upper edge peeling. [VOLS.III-IV]: Two bump-marks on spine rear hinge. [VOLS.III-IV & V-VI]: Front cover somewhat lumpy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare precious set of classic 19th-century Orientalist lithographs by the foremost artist in this genre is good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs. The book is in : English.

Mit 241 getönten lithographierten Tafeln, 2 Stahlstich-Karten sowie 6 getönten lithogr. Titeln mit Vignetten. 4° (29,5 x 20,5 cm). OLeinen mit Deckel- und Rückenvergoldung, goldgepr. zentraler Wappenvignette auf beiden Deckeln sowie dreiseitigem Goldschnitt. D. Roberts (1796-1864), "gehört zu den geschätztesten Architekturmalern der neueren Zeit" (Thieme/B. 28, 428); vorliegende Ansichten aus dem Nahen Osten, Arbeitsergebnisse einer Reise in den Jahren 1838 und 1839, erschienen zuerst ab 1842 in Imperial-Folio und mit Handkolorierung der damals 118 Tafel und 120 Textillustrationen als 41 Lieferungen im Zeitraum von 7 Jahren. Roberts war einer der ersten Künstler, der nicht nach Hörensagen, Skizzen und Berichten anderer Illustrationen fertigte, sondern nach eigener Anschauung arbeitete. Als früherer Theatermaler war er sich der Wirkung von Inszenierungen bewußt, die er hier, in seiner zweiten Schaffensphase angelangt, und zuerst als Aquarell mit sicherem, feinem Strich aufs Papier brachte. Das Werk insgesamt ist sowohl ein Höhepunkt der lithographischen Buchillustration wie der ästhetischen Aneignung des (antiken) Orients durch Europa; es liegt hier in der zweiten Ausgabe vor. Der Text stammt von George Croly (1780-1860), einem irisch-englischen Schriftsteller (Drama, Lyrik, Roman) und Historiker, seinerzeit bekannt, einflußreich und als Geistlicher seit 1835 Rektor von St. Stephen Walbrook in London. Auch bei ihm ist das Wissen um die theatralische Wirkung von Inszenierungen vorauszusetzen, wobei es faktisch unterfüttert ist von historischen Kenntnissen. Etwas berieben und bestoßen; papierbedingt gebräunt; teils stockfleckig; Besitzvermerk auf Vorsätzen; auf hinterem Spiegel mit Buchbindermarke: "Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge". Bd 1: oberes Kapital mit Einriss und knittrig; Innengelenke angeplatzt; Titelporträt auf Vorsatz montiert; Titel und ein Textblatt am Rand mit Klebefilm unschön verstärkt (verfärbt). Bd 2: hinteres Innengelenk mit schmalem Leinenstreifen verstärkt; das Seidenschutzpapier einer Tafel mit kl. Einriss unschön mit Klebestreifen 'repariert'. Bd 3: eine Tafel verso zweier Ränder unschön mit Klebefilm verstärkt, eine weitere Tafel mit kleinem Einriss dito. Bd 4: vorderes Innengelenk angeplatzt; Frontispiz auf Vorsatz montiert; hinterer fliegender Vorsatz auf Innendeckel montiert. Bd 5: Innengelenke angeplatzt. Bd 6: eine Tafel längstseitig außerhalb des Bildbereichs mit Klebestreifen verstärkt (gebräunt). Please ask for further pictures and an English description. EN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, April 16th 1855-1856, First Quarto Edition, Second Edition Overall. 1855 First Quarto Edition of David Roberts THE HOLY LAND, printed in London by Day & Son in 1855 and 1856. Bound in the publisher s original dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spine with green cloth boards, with the gilt crest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to the front boards. Six volumes bound in three, with 250 Lithograph Plates, printed in colour. The volumes are complete in all respects with 241 colour-tinted lithographic plates, 6 tinted lithographic titles and vignettes, 2 lithographic maps, and 1 portrait of Roberts. All page edges gilt. The bindings show some wear, marks and scratches, Vol I-II has had a spine repair with the original spine laid on. Internally the leaves are tanned with some foxing, more extreme to the beginning and end and the margins of the prints. The lithographic prints all retain their original protective tissue covers. Some pages standing proud to Vol II-IV and V-VI. Vol. I [vi], 35pp; 44 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages; Vol. II [ii], 2, 43 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages; Vol. III [i], 3pp; 38 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages; Vol. IV [ii], 9, 43 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages; Vol. V [ii], 44 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages; Vol. VI [i], 38 plates with unnumbered accompanying text pages. Provenance: signature of B Dowson to all volumes. Approximately 11 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition repaired to Vol I-II with the original spine laid on, gilt titles, compartments decorated in gilt, some marks and wear. Joints good condition rubbed and worn, repaired to Vol I-II. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition half leather binding, cloth buckram boards with wear and marks. Page edges good condition all edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition secure and strong, repaired and strengthened. Paste downs good condition plain, tanned. End papers good condition plain, signature for B Dowson to all volumes, subsequent end papers foxed. Title good condition gently tanned with minor foxing. Pages good condition tanned with sporadic foxing throughout. Binding good condition attractive, worn. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1855-6 Binding: Hardback.

Second (First Small Folio) Edition. 285 x 195 mm. (11 1/8 x 7 3/8"). Six volumes bound in three. FINE 20TH CENTURY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF for Asprey & Co. (stamp-signed on front turn-in), boards with simple gilt-rule border, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, gilt titling, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 250 FINE TINTED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES, MOSTLY OF VIEWS OF THE HOLY LAND, by Louis Haghe after Roberts (a few with hand coloring), including engraved titles, two engraved maps, and an engraved portrait of Roberts. Abbey, "Travel" 385, 388, and 272; Blackmer 1432; Tobler, p. 229. â Text leaves with faint overall darkening (due to paper quality), isolated small patches of foxing or minor smudges to margin of plates, otherwise AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET, the text entirely clean, smooth, and fresh, the bindings unworn, and THE IMAGES VERY CLEAN, RICH, AND ENTIRELY WITHOUT FOXING. This is a remarkably clean and bright copy, in a very pleasing binding, of the small folio edition of one of the great travel books from the Victorian heyday of the genre. Roberts (1796-1864) started out painting houses and then theatrical scenery, but soon developed a reputation for paintings and lithographs of exotic scenery. His "Holy Land" is one of the most famous English illustrated books of the century. Its success was due in part to its lavishness, but certainly also to "Roberts' great accuracy as a draughtsman, his strong sense of country and place [and] . . . his love of architecture." (Houfe) Abbey says that "Haghe's skillful and delicate lithography, and his faithful interpretation of Roberts's draughtsmanship and dramatic sense, combine in what are undoubtedly remarkable examples of tinted lithographic work. . . . one feels that the colossal subjects and broad vistas were ideally suited to Roberts's talent, trained as he was in theatrical scene-painting." Ours is an especially appealing copy of a work often disfigured with foxing.

Second edition, with reduced illustrations but with more of them double-tinted or chromolithographed, of one of the most splendid and historically important visual records of the Middle East, after drawings by David Roberts (1796-1864) from the sketches he made from life during his travels through what are now Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon in 1838 and 1839. His views also provide a very detailed visual record of many sites that were afterward destroyed or disturbed. His views of the modern cities also preserve records of both their architecture and their daily life and he shows spectacular landscapes in the mountains, around the Dead Sea and along the Nile and the Jordan. In very good condition, with occasional light foxing, mostly on the backs of the plates, and with a faint marginal water stain in the lower outside corner of many plates in volumes 3 and 4, not approaching the printed image. The inside front hinge of the second volume as bound has separated from the book block and the bindings show some wear at the hinges and extremities, but they are otherwise also very good. 250 mostly tinted and double-tinted lithographs providing stunning early views of the Middle East.l Abbey, Travel 388 (lacking vols. 5-6); Blackmer 1432 note; Gay 25; Hiler, p. 205; cf. Lipperheide, Lc 12 & Ma 27 (1842-1849 ed.); Tooley 401-402 (1842-1849 ed.).

Large 8vo (300 x 220 mm). 6 vols. bound as 3. With 250 numbered plates (image size 120 x 170 to 150 x 220 mm), including a tinted lithographed portrait of the artist, 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, side-stitched and oversewn, then sewn on 5 recessed cords, with a hollow back, 5 false bands on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, combed and curled marbled endpapers, headbands in red and yellow, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate. Second edition, with reduced illustrations but with more of them double-tinted or chromolithographed, of one of the most splendid and historically important visual records of the Middle East, after drawings by David Roberts (1796-1864) from the sketches he made from life during his travels through what is now Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon in 1838 and 1839. In Egypt he ventured up the Nile as far as the Nubian temples at Abu Simbel, near the present border with Sudan and travelled by camel through the Sinai to the extraordinary carved-rock buildings of Petra. These had been unknown to Europeans until Burckhardt discovered them in 1812 and 1813, so Roberts's views are among the earliest and are in many ways better than the few predecessors. In Lebanon he ventured as far as Baalbek, which had seen few European visitors before Egypt annexed it in 1832. Other sites he visited and drew include Cairo, Suez, Gaza, Jerusalem and Beirut. He was one of the first Europeans allowed to make drawings of the interior of mosques, so even in well-known cities these too opened a new world to European eyes. His views also provide a very detailed visual record of many sites that were afterward destroyed or disturbed. He drew them during the infancy of photography, before it reached the Middle East and long before it reached maturity there. His views of the modern cities also preserve records of both their architecture and their daily life and he shows spectacular landscapes in the mountains, around the Dead Sea and along the Nile and the Jordan. Roberts, born to a poor (Welsh?) family in Edinburgh, was apprenticed as a house painter, moved to London and worked his way up to paint sets for the Drury Lane Theatre and others. Thanks to patrons who appreciated his talents and hard work he was able to make the expensive and dangerous voyage through the Middle East. George Croly (in volumes 1-3) and William Brockedon (in volumes 4-6) provided explanatory and historical notes on the sites shown in Roberts's views. - Roberts's views were originally published in two separate works, issued in parts in the years 1842 to 1849 and often found together. One centred on the Holy Land, though also including views in other parts of the Middle East, while the other was devoted to Egypt and Nubia. The views in the former were made with only a single tint block and even the latter used fewer tint blocks than the present second edition and only one chromolithograph. The present edition, with sometimes very intricate double tints and two chromolithographs (with black and three tint blocks) is a masterpiece of tinted lithography. Since the lithographers used photographic reductions of the lithographic views of the first edition as an aid to their work, the book also pioneered the use of photography in graphic reproduction. The lithographed title-pages are dated 1855 except for those of vol. 3 (from the simultaneous New York issue, undated) and 6 (1856) but volumes 2-6 include plates dated 1856. The dates of the plates in all six volumes range from 16 April 1855 to 15 December 1856. - The title-page of volume 3 was intended for the simultaneous New York issue, but appears to have always been part of the present copy. In very good condition, with occasional light foxing, mostly on the backs of the plates, and with a faint marginal water stain in the lower outside corner of many plates in volumes 3 and 4, not approaching the printed image. The inside front hinge of the second volume as bound has separated from the book block and the bindings show some wear at the hinges and extremities, but they are otherwise also very good. 250 mostly tinted and double-tinted lithographs providing stunning early views of the Middle East, including Petra, Abu Simbel and the interiors of several mosques. - Abbey, Travel 388 (lacking vols. 5-6). Blackmer 1432 (note). Gay 25. Hiler 205. Cf. Hamilton, Europe and the Arab world 66 (1842-49 ed.); Lipperheide, Lc 12 & Ma 27 (1842-49 ed.); Tooley 401f. (1842-49 ed.); not in Colas.

Condition: Good. 2 vols. Folio. 62 x 46.5 cm. Black half-morocco; spine with raised bands; title, author and printed in gold letters on the spine; green percaline cloth delimited by a double gold fillet. Elegant French binding with the plates mounted on hinges (sur onglets) with fresh paper guards for each plate.Volume 1 : 1 portrait, 1 title frontispiece and 43 tinted lithographs including 21 hors texteVolume 2 : 1 title frontispiece and 43 tinted lithographs including 21 hors texte.Table of plates for the three volumes in volume 1.Original edition of the first two volumes concerning the Holy Land (without the 3 following ones announced in the title). They appeared in issues between 1842 and 1845. Copy with the tinted lithographs mounted on strong paper. According to Abbey (Travel, 385), this set constitutes one of the most important publishing ventures of this kind in the 19th century, and the apotheosis of tinted lithography. The illustrations by David Roberts (1796-1864), who stayed in the region from 1830, are finely interpreted in lithography by Louis Haghe (1806-1885), who here signs his most monumental work. It is one of the most beautiful illustrated works published in the Holy Land.The first two volumes alone are very complete with their plates.References:Travel In Aquatint And Lithography 1770-1860 From The Library of J.R. Abbey . A Bibliographical Catalogue Volume II (repr. 1991), no. 385, p.334-41 [describing a 3-vol. issue, 1842, 1843, 1849, but referring to an earlier 2-vol. issue]; R.V. Tooley, English Books With Coloured Plates 1790-1860 (1954; repr. 1987), no. 401, p.321-4;B. Culliford, ed., David Roberts: From an antique land: travels in Egypt and the Holy Land (1989); H. Guiterman and B. Llewellyn, ed., David Roberts [exhibition catalogue] (1986); J. Ballantine, The life of David Roberts R.A. (1866);M. Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), esp. p.220-5.Summary Note:The publication-date of 1842 is given on the title-page of Volume I. Plate [5] carries no date, but all other plates carry dates within 1841 May - July (pl. 1-4, 6-12, 14, 24, 26), or 1842 July - December (pl. [113, 15-23]), apart from the last plate, which carries the date of June 1 1844. The frontispiece portrait also carries the date of 1844 (and an additional plate, possibly bound in this volume in error, carries the date of Jan 1 1845). The in-text illustrations also carry dates, most ranging from May 1 1841 to Nov 1 1842 but the last carrying the date of Jany 1 1845.The publication-date of 1843 is given on the title-plate of Volume 2. Its plates carry dates ranging from November 1 1842 to December 1 1843 (pl. 1, 2, 4-13, 15, 18) but also from May 1 to November 1 1844 (pl. 3, 14, 16, 17, 19-29, 30-33) and January 1 1845 (pl. 31, 34). The in-text illustrations carry dates ranging from November 1 1842 (pl.2) to September 18 1843 (pl. 1, 3-15), but also 1844 (pl. 16-30, 32-34) and January 1 1845 (pl. 31, 35).Abbey states that the work was originally published between January 1842 and the end of 1845 in twenty parts, in eighteen wrappers, containing all the plates and illustrations described above - a map was added in later issues. Although 'Egypt, & Nubia' are mentioned on the title-plates, the three volumes devoted to those regions were published separately as Egypt & Nubia From Drawings made On The Spot By David Roberts R.A. . (1846, 1849, 1849).The plates of Volume I show views in Jerusalem, Petra, Bethlehem, Bethany, Jericho and Jordan Valley. The last plate shows a view of Suez. The additional plate (separated from its text, in Vol. 2) shows an approach to Mt. Sinai.The plates in the second volume show Judaea (the Jordan, Jericho, Mar Saba monastery, Wilderness of Engadi), Beit Jibrin, Hebron, Askelon, Ashdod, Gaza, Lydda, Jaffa, Mt. Carmel, Ramla, St. Jean D'Acre, Cape Blanco, Tyre, Sarepta, Sidon, Baalbec, Jenin, Mt. Tabor; Galilee (Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias), Nablous (Shechem), Sebaste (Samaria), Akabah, Sinai (Monastery of St. Catherine, Mt. Horeb).Abbey describes Roberts's Holy Land as 'one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph' and 'a technical feat on the part of Louis Haghe'. (Ruskin thought that Roberts's fidelity to his subjects was of a kind inevitably surpassed by photography.)David Roberts's painting, 'The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec' (corresponding to pl. [18] of Volume 2 of the present publication), was donated to the Royal Academy as his 'diploma work' on his accepting membership of the Academy in 1841.

Contemporary decorative publishers' cloth, expertly rebacked, spine in six raised compartments gilt bands and gilt tooling within gilt lines, all edges gilt. , In 1838 Roberts made a long tour in the East, and accumulated a vast collection of sketches of Middle Eastern scenery which had been hardly touched by British artists before, and which appealed to the public with all the charm of novelty. The next ten years of his life were mainly spent in elaborating these materials. In February of 1839 he traveled to the Holy Land via Suez, Mount Sinai and Petra arriving in Gaza, and then on to Jerusalem. He ended his tour by spending several months visiting the biblical sites of the Holy Land, and finally returning to England at the end of 1839. An extensive series of drawings was lithographed by Louis Haghe in Sketches in the Holy Land and Syria, 1842-1849. , Size : Large folio., Complete with 60 full page and 60 half-page finely hand coloured lithographic plates, all after paintings and drawings made on the spot by artist David Roberts., Volume : 3 volumes in 2. (Holy La, References : Abbey Travel 385. Beautifully hand coloured plates are clean and crisp, a fine example of this important work in handsome binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. ROBERTS DAVID. HAGHE Louis 1806-1885 (illustrator). 1st Edition. Often considered as the finest illustrated work on the Near East! 3 vols, 1st eds, 1842-43-49. Complete, 1 map, + 124 hand coloured tinted lithographs. In contemporary half red morocco over red morocco cloth, some gilt tooling. Spines, relaid, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally. Vol 1, 1842, portrait frontis, engraved titlepage, [8], [1], 2-30 pp, 44 pls (including 1 B&W portrait, the remainder tinted lithographs, hand coloured). Vol 2, 1843, 43 pls (hand coloured lithographs). Vol 3, 1849, 37 pls, + 1 map (B&W). A.e.g., green marbled endpapers, small stamp to recto of each Vols ep (H.E.H. Duplicate - probably Henry Edwards Huntington - February 27, 1850 ? May 23, 1927 - he was an American railroad magnate & collector of art & rare books). Corner repairs to V1 & 2, 7 plates remounted, 2 new inner cloth joints, occasional light spotting. The red morocco cloth to vols 1 & 3, have been expertly replaced (c20C). (Elephant folio, 447*612 mm). (Abbey Travel 385/272. Tooley 401/2). Waldemar Januszczak wrote in a review in the Guardian in 1986. 'His pictures are determined to take your breath away. The artist tries every pictorial trick in the book, from the dramatically plunging perspective to the lonely ruin on a hill' and is 'unusually good for a British painter at sampling the dark, sumptuous interiors of Catholic cathedrals' (ODNB).