SPILSBURY, F[RANCIS] B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

SPILSBURY, F[RANCIS] B. Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800

FIRST EDITION. Mezzotint frontispiece portrait + 19 hand-colored plates, mostly aquatints. Broad margins pp. 4, 42, (1). Minor stains and marginal tears. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Large folio Abbey, Travel 381; Colas 2788; Lipperheide 1460; Röhricht 1562; Blackmer Cat. no. 1022

London: W. Bulmer and Co. 1803

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,750

From 1799-1800, the British and the Turks united to fight Napolean's advance in the area that is now modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Syria. "Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria" depicts scenes that Spilsbury witnessed in his position of surgeon to H.M.S. Le Tigre. The work includes his encounters in Acre, Sidon, Tyre, Beirut, Genin, the Lake of Tiberia, Tripoli, Caesarea, Jaffa, Jerusalem, etc. Spilsbury often observes and contrasts the contemporary society as he saw it and the lands as described in the Bible