Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
David Roberts – The Holy Land – Large-format French Edition – Brussels, 1843 – Lithographs
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
La Terre Sainte, Vues et Monuments recueillis par David Roberts – The Holy Land, David Roberts' drawings. Brussels: Société des beaux-arts, 1843. French.
David Roberts' monumental work, The Holy Land. Large-format French edition, with 30 lithographic plates, lithographic title page and additional in-text lithographs. The lithographs, after drawings by Roberts, depict edifices, towns, landscapes and sites sacred to the various religions throughout Palestine and the Middle East, documentation of the journeys undertaken by Roberts during the years 1839-1840.
[33] ff. + [31] lithographic plates, approx. 53 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamp to verso of title page. One plate detached. Quarter leather binding. Minor blemishes to binding; wear to spine, with abrasions and tears.
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