Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SPILSBURY, FRANCIS B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800. 19 hand-colored plates, a few watermarked 1820, comprising 16 aquatints, 2 soft-ground etchings, and one engraving. Folio, 459x326 mm, 1/2 red calf by Bayntun; scattered minor stains, mostly marginal, minimally affecting plates. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1819 [i. e., circa 1820]

Additional Details

Second edition of a work first published in 1803. Abbey Travel 381 (original edition); Tooley 464 (this edition).