Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
December 21, 2021
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
La Terre Sainte, Vues et Monuments recueillis par David Roberts – The Holy Land, David Roberts' drawings. Brussels: Société des beaux-arts, 1843. French.
David Roberts' monumental work, The Holy Land. Large-format French edition, with 30 lithographic plates, lithographic title page and additional in-text lithographs. The lithographs, after drawings by Roberts, depict edifices, towns, landscapes and sites sacred to the various religions throughout Palestine and the Middle East, documentation of the journeys undertaken by Roberts during the years 1839-1840.
[33] ff. + [31] lithographic plates, approx. 53 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamp to verso of title page. One plate detached. Quarter leather binding. Minor blemishes to binding; wear to spine, with abrasions and tears.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, after lithographs by Louise Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. Published by Son & Day, London / D. Appleton, New-York, 1855-1856. English. Six volumes bound in five.
David Roberts's monumental work, The Holy Land. Six volumes with 248 lithographs after drawings by Roberts and two engraved maps delineating the route of Roberts's journey in the Middle East. With descriptions by George Croly and William Brockedon. The lithographs depict edifices, towns, landscapes and sites sacred to the different religions throughout Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, the Transjordan and Egypt, documentation of the journeys taken by Roberts in 1839-1840. Six volumes bound in five. Volumes I-III bound in three fine, blue bindings, with gilt designs. Vol. IV-VI bound in two simple bindings (new). Vol. III appears twice – once separately and once bound with Vol. IV. The prints are numbered consecutively throughout the volumes.
Volume I : [3] ff., 35 pp. [23] ff. + 1-44 plates. Volume II: [1] f., 3 pp. [22] ff. + 45-87 plates. Volume III : [1], 3 pp. [19] ff. + 88-125 plates. Volume IV (vols. 3-4) : [1], 3 pp. [19] ff. + 88-125 plates; [1] f., 9 pp. [23] ff. + 126-169 plates (plate 169 followed by one f. with subtitle reading "frontispiece to vol. 5", both belonging in vol. 5). Volume V (vols. 5-6) : [22] ff. + 170-212 plates; [2] ff. + 213-250 plates.
29 cm. Gilt edges. Good overall condition. Minor stains. Tears to edges of some leaves and tissue guards. Several detached leaves and plates. Pen notations to some endpapers. Blemishes to bindings of first three volumes; two bindings partly detached, one with loss to spine.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $750
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Four volumes of "Picturesque Palestine" and the supplement "Social Life in Egypt". London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [ca. 1880-1884].
1-4. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, edited by Charles W. Wilson. London, [ca. 1880-1884]. Four volumes (complete set). A comprehensive collection of articles about the history, geography and archeology of Palestine and its surroundings, and about the Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of the area, written by renowned British scholars (such as Charles Wilson, Henry Baker Tristram, Charles Warren and others). The articles are accompanied by 42 engraved plates (steel engravings; including engraved title pages), two large color maps (a map of Palestine and a map of Sinai and Egypt) and hundreds of in-text illustrations (woodcuts). The engraved plates, depicting the views and inhabitants of Palestine and its surroundings, were made after works by Harry Fenn and John Douglas Woodward. Volume I : X, 240 pp. [2] ff. + [10] plates. Volume II : VI, 240 pp. [2] ff. + [12] plates. Volume III : VI, 240 pp. [2] ff. + [11] plates and [1] map (on a double-spread plates). Volume IV : VI, 236 pp. [2] ff. + [9] plates and [1] map (on a double-spread plate). 32 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes and stains. Minor blemishes, tears, abrasions and repairs to bindings (spines and edges). 5. Social Life in Egypt, a Description of the Country and its People, a Supplement to Picturesque Palestine, by Stanley lane-Poole. London, [1884]. The book deals with Egyptian society and its lifestyle and contains six engraved plates (steel engravings; including an engraved title page) and numerous illustrations. The book was published separately, but was presented as a supplement to the "Picturesque Palestine" book series. VI, 138 pp., [2] ff. + [6] engraved plates, 32 cm. Good condition. Stains and blemishes. Abrasions and tears to edges of binding.
All five books are bound in fine original (matching) bindings with gilt designs. Gilt edges.
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