?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 35,000 - $ 50,000
ROBERTS, DAVID. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia . . .with historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly; [with:] Egypt and Nubia from drawings made on the spot . . . with historical descriptions by William Brockedon. 6 volumes. 241 tinted proof lithographs by Louis Haghe after Roberts (including portrait, 6 lithographed pictorial titles, plates and 2 engraved maps), printed without captions, the half-page plates with the relevant text printed on the following page, mounted on linen guards throughout. 597x425mm, 23 1/2x16 3/4 inches. Elephant folio, modern 1/2 gilt-lettered red calf morocco by Max Adjarian; all edges trimmed and gilt; scattered occasional foxing. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-49
a fine complete set of the rare tinted proofs before titles issue of the first edition of roberts's major work on palestine and the near east. One of a very few copies of the intermediate issue with tinted proof plates to have appeared at auction: in this issue the plates are tinted, printed with imprints but without titles, and are all presented on separate leaves (with the text that is usually printed beneath the half-page plates printed on a separate leaf.) "The work was originally issued in 41 parts over seven years in 3 states: 'prints Tinted in Paper Parts' (at 1 guinea per part); 'Proofs Tinted in thin Cloth Cases' (as here, for ?. 11s. 6d. per part) and 'Coloured and Mounted, in thin Cloth Cases' (for 2 guineas each)"--Abbey Travel 272 and 385 (quoting from Moon's prospectus of 1840); Tooley 401-2; Blackmer 1432.
