[Wood, Robert]. The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, 1st edition, London: [no publisher], 1753. Large folio (520 x 360 mm), 20th-century quarter cloth, [6] 50 pp. (pp. 25, 27 and 29 engraved), 57 engraved plates after Giovanni Battista Borra, leaf T damp-stained and with marginal tape-repair, folding panorama (plate 1) with one section large torn away and various tape-repairs, plate 3 crudely tape-repaired along fore edge, 23 with extensive closed tear (tape-repaired verso), 43, 46 and 53 with damp-staining to fore corners not encroaching on plate-marks, 47, 54 and 55 with crude pencil-markings verso, 57 with similar markings recto (within plate-mark), together with:
Chambers (Sir William). A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 3rd edition ('considerably augmented'), London: printed by Joseph Meeton, sold by T. Cadell [and others], 1791. Large folio (565 x 375 mm), 20th-century cloth, all edges untrimmed, pp. [4] vi 7-137 [1], 52 engraved plates only (of 53), spotting throughout, shallow tide-mark to top edges of plates, small tear in penultimate plate, final plate frayed and damp-stained, pp. 39/40 duplicated, 47/8 and 119/20 with marginal repairs, 111/12 with repair through text (qty: 2)

ESTC T137526 (Wood) & T174022 (Chambers).

Wood's Ruins of Palmyra and its companion work The Ruins of Balbec (1757) 'stand at the beginning of a tradition to which other writers on archaeology in the second half of the eighteenth century would aspire ... The works brought previously unknown remains to public attention and had a profound effect on classical taste in England' (ODNB).