Author: Gurin, Victor
Title: La Terre Sainte. (Premire partie:) Son histoire, ses souvenirs, ses sites, ses monuments. (Deuxime partie: ) Palestine occidentale et meridionale. Liban - Phnicie - Ptra - Sina - gypte.
Description: Paris, Librairie Plon, Nourrrit & Cie, Imprimeurs-diteurs, 1882-1884 2 vols. Large folio (40x30 cm). Nice bindings signed by A. Souze and A. Lengre: spines red morocco, richly gilt in compartments (first hinge first vol. teared), covers red cloth, frontcovers gilt and decorated with ornaments in different colours (corners rubbed with loss of cloth); edges gilt, decorated endpapers (inner hinges teared). Vol. I:(vi: blank, title and Preface),455 (of463),(i: blank),(iv: 'Tables') pp. In this vol. 2 quires misbound: quire 12 (p.89-96) bound twice and quire 18 (p.137-144, with 5 illustr.) missing. Vol. II: (viii),507,(1:blank), (iv: 'Tables') pp. Together 2 vols. with 2 printed titles in red and black, with woodengraved vignette, 2 steelengraved titles with vignette (on all the 4 titles a convent-stamp); 3 maps of resp. Liban, Palestine & gypte(2 double-page maps) and 1 double-page plan of Jerusalem engraved by R. Hausermann and 38 steelengraved views: together 47 steelengravings and 588 (of 593) woodengraved illustrations. On both of the first blank leaves in calligraphy "Souvenir Mr et Mme Joseph Nijst de la part de leur cousin Jules Molle de Nadure, 1884" - On the whole a good set, with only a very few lightbrown spots, with all the steelengravings with their prospective tissues. - It's a pity for the binder's mistake (see above) of such a magnificent work. Gewicht/Weight: 12500 grs.
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Title: La Terre Sainte. (Premire partie:) Son histoire, ses souvenirs, ses sites, ses monuments. (Deuxime partie: ) Palestine occidentale et meridionale. Liban - Phnicie - Ptra - Sina - gypte.
Description: Paris, Librairie Plon, Nourrrit & Cie, Imprimeurs-diteurs, 1882-1884 2 vols. Large folio (40x30 cm). Nice bindings signed by A. Souze and A. Lengre: spines red morocco, richly gilt in compartments (first hinge first vol. teared), covers red cloth, frontcovers gilt and decorated with ornaments in different colours (corners rubbed with loss of cloth); edges gilt, decorated endpapers (inner hinges teared). Vol. I:(vi: blank, title and Preface),455 (of463),(i: blank),(iv: 'Tables') pp. In this vol. 2 quires misbound: quire 12 (p.89-96) bound twice and quire 18 (p.137-144, with 5 illustr.) missing. Vol. II: (viii),507,(1:blank), (iv: 'Tables') pp. Together 2 vols. with 2 printed titles in red and black, with woodengraved vignette, 2 steelengraved titles with vignette (on all the 4 titles a convent-stamp); 3 maps of resp. Liban, Palestine & gypte(2 double-page maps) and 1 double-page plan of Jerusalem engraved by R. Hausermann and 38 steelengraved views: together 47 steelengravings and 588 (of 593) woodengraved illustrations. On both of the first blank leaves in calligraphy "Souvenir Mr et Mme Joseph Nijst de la part de leur cousin Jules Molle de Nadure, 1884" - On the whole a good set, with only a very few lightbrown spots, with all the steelengravings with their prospective tissues. - It's a pity for the binder's mistake (see above) of such a magnificent work. Gewicht/Weight: 12500 grs.
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Price: EUR 400.00 = appr. US$ 434.74 Seller: Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers
- Book number: 52748
- Book number: 52748