Roberts (David).

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Roberts (David).
The Holy Land. Views & Monuments. With a Historical Description on each plate. Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts, A. de Wasme, 1843. In-folio, mounted on tabs, green half-shell, green percaline plates, cold-framed, spine decorated, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Röhricht, no. 1984-4. - Tobler, p. 229. First French edition, illustrated with a title-frontispiece, 30 large vignettes in the text and 30 view plates, all lithographed on a tinted background after drawings by the author. Account of one of the great journeys to the Near East in the 19th century by the Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864). After embarking from London in 1838, the artist arrived in Alexandria and then Cairo, where he stayed for a long time. He then took the road to the Holy Land, visited Gaza, Jaffa, Jerusalem and Jericho, and travelled to the banks of the Jordan River, the Dead Sea and Lake Tiberias, the Lebanon Mountains and the ruins of Balbec. An intermittent fever forced him to shorten his journey and he returned to England in 1839 without having been able to see Damascus or Palmyra. Some snakes were renewed, some freckles. Rubbing at the binding, traces of wetness on the first plate.
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