ROBERTS DAVID The Holy Land Syria Idumea Arabia Egypt Nubia

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Price Realized: $ 180,000

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HAND-COLORED PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS ROBERTS, DAVID. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. 248 mounted hand-colored lithographed plates by Louis Haghe after Roberts, including 6 pictorial titles; uncolored lithographed portrait of Roberts; 2 engraved maps. 6 volumes. Folio, 602x438 mm, original 1/2 black morocco gilt, joints and spine ends rubbed; around a quarter of the plates variously foxed, approximately 30 plates noticeably cockled, portrait and maps heavily foxed, paper cracks in frontispiece of Egypt & Nubia Volume 1, 2 text leaves loose, repaired tears in plate in Egypt & Nubia Volume 3. London, 1842-49

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handsome set of the first edition in book form, in the original bindings and in the issue with hand-colored proofs before letters. "Roberts'' Holy Land was one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph . . . Haghe''s skilful and delicate lithography and his faithful interpretation of Roberts'' draughtmanship and dramatic sense combine in what are undoubtedly remarkable examples of tinted lithographic work" (Abbey). "No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East" (ODNB). Abbey Travel 272 and 385; Friedman, Color Printing in England 131-32.