Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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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 Ex-library, introductory ff. of each volume loose. Contemporary cloth, worn. 8vo

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1854

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $250

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)