The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Haghe

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The instance The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Haghe represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Haghe

Title remainder

Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

Statement of responsibility

from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Haghe

Instantiates

• The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

Publication

• London, F.G. Moon, publisher, 20 Threadneedle Street, 1842-1849

Note

• The other three volumes of Roberts' great work, usually referred to as Roberts's Holy Land, with title "Egypt & Nubia," were published separately in 1846-1849, although "all six volumes are often found together as a set. It must have been originally the intention to issue the book under one title as Volume I-VI, but there is no hint of this on the title-page ... ;" see Abbey
• Large mounted lithograph frontispiece portrait of David Roberts by Charles Baugniet in volume 1

Contents

v. 1. Jerusalem and Galilee -- v. 2. The Jordan and Bethlehem -- v. 3. Idumea and Petra

Dimensions

63 cm.

Extent

3 volumes in 2

Note

Spec. Coll. copy: damaged 19th-century marbled paper and green morocco binding, signed "J. Wright Binder" on lower edge of front pastedown, has been replaced with new linen boards; all edges gilt. Armorial bookplates of Henry Hope-Edwardes and William Watson Pattinson on front pastedowns of volume 1; Patterson bookplate and ownership inscription of Los Angeles architect Robert D. Farquhar on pastedown of volume 2. In modern beige cloth clamshell boxes. Forms part of the Robert D. Farquhar Collection of architecture books.

Other physical details

illustrations (lithographs) (some colored)

Record ID

1052693

System control number

• (OCoLC)02727657
• ucoclc2727657