Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE TINTED LITHOGRAPH" -- ABBEY (HOLY LAND.) Roberts, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. Lithographed portrait frontispiece of Roberts on india paper, 2 tinted lithographed title-pages, 25 (of 60) full-page tinted lithographed plates, 33 (of 60) half-page tinted lithographs. Parts of 3 volumes in one disbound collection. Folio, 610x440 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, covers worn and soiled, disbound and lacking backstrip and spine; some foxing, margins of many leaves soiled, creased, chipped, dampstained. Still, some of the better images clean. Abbey, Travel, 385. must be seen. collation available. London, 1842-45