About this title: In 1838 and 1839, painter David Roberts traveled throughout Egypt and across the Sinai Peninsula to Petra, Jerusalem, and Palestine. The lithographs based on the sketches and paintings he produced during these trips won him fame that endures to this day. This exceptional slipcased package presents, in two volumes, full-color plates of his original artwork, accompanied by commentary and extracts from his journals. In a fascinating comparison between the lands that Roberts depicts and their modern-day incarnations, White Star has juxtaposed new photographs from travel photographer Antonio ...
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Description: Very good. Publishers Overstock. A Very Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: White Star Publishers
Date Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN-13:9788854402966ISBN:8854402966
Description: Fine. Three volumes complete. Mint in publisher's cloth in like slip case. Shrink wrapped. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Edition: reprint.
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: White Star Publishers, Vercelli
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9788854402966ISBN:8854402966
Description: Cloth, F. 3 volumes, 271pp, 271pp, 32pp, grand total of 254 colour plates in the main two volumes, plus an additional 38 colur illustrations in the biography volume, a superb set, the three folio volumes here reissued in a cloth slipcase. New. Superb & sumptuous edition of Robert's celebrated views of the Middle East & the ancient ruins there. All of the plates from the original works are present, along with a comparison photograph of the sites today. Well printed & large format, a nice item. read more
Edition: reprint.
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: White Star Publishers, Vercelli
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9788854402966ISBN:8854402966
Description: Cloth, F. 3 volumes, 271pp, 271pp, 32pp, grand total of 254 colour plates in the main two volumes, plus an additional 38 colur illustrations in the biography volume, a superb set, the three folio volumes here reissued in a cloth slipcase. New. Superb & sumptuous edition of Robert's celebrated views of the Middle East and the ancient ruins there. All of the plates from the original works are present, along with a comparison photograph of the sites today. Well printed & large format, a nice item. read more
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