Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Picturesque Palestine – Comprehensive Study of Palestine – London, 1880–1884 – Many Engravings
Complete four–volume set of "Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt", edited by Charles W. Wilson, and the appended fifth volume "Social Life in Egypt". London: J.S. Virtue and Co. [ca. 1880–1884].
A comprehensive collection of scholarly essays dedicated to Palestine's history, geography and archaeology, and its people – Jews, Muslims and Christians – written by renowned British researchers (among whom Charles Wilson and Henry Baker Tristram).
The essays are accompanied by numerous steel engravings, depicting the landscape and people of Palestine, and numerous in–text illustrations (woodcuts), after works by the painters Harry Fenn and John Douglas Woodward, and two large color maps (a map of Palestine and a map of Sinai and Egypt).
The present four–volume set is appended by a fifth volume – Social Life in Egypt, by Stanley Lane–Poole (London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [1884]), printed in a similar format to the other volumes, accompanied by woodcuts and steel engravings.
5 volumes. Vol. I: X, 240 pp. + [10] plates; Vol. II: VI, 240 pp. + [12] plates; Vol. III: VI, 240 pp. + [11] plates + [1] map (double sheet); Vol. IV: VI, 236 pp. + [9] plates + [1] map (double sheet); Vol. V: IV, 138 pp. + [6] plates. 32 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear (most of which in volume V). Covers rubbed and slightly worn.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, ALE.5..