27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Roberts (David).
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia [and] Egypt and Nubia.
The Folio Society, 2014, two folio volumes, colour illustrated, top edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, slipcases.
Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 27th Nov, 2024
Highlights include a first edition of an important work on the English colonies in America and the West Indies published in 1687, a collection of watercolours depicting landscapes and ancient sites of Egypt and the Middle East, and a selection of mid-19th century albumen print photographs of Rome. Further notable lots include plates from a mid-18th century plan of Paris by Michael Etienne Turgot, a Victorian autograph album and a copy of Eugene Grasset's 'Plants and the Application to Ornament'.
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