Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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Lot 275

VAN DE VELDE, CAREL WILLEM MEREDITH.

Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Two volumes. Chromolithographed frontispieces, folding map, folding plan of Jerusalem and folding plate of inscriptions Couple introductory ff. of each volume loose, contemporary cloth, vol. II lacking upper half of backstrip, worn, ex library, 8vo Blackmer 1722; Tobler 184; Roehricht 2274

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1854

Est: $150 - $200

PRICE REALIZED $300

A description of the journey during which van de Velde collected the material for his famous publication of lithographed plates, Le Pays d’Israel (Paris, 1857)