Lot 487
Middle Eastern Travel, a collection of 10 volumes, comprising Van de Velde, C.W.M.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1854. 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 tinted frontispieces, folding map, folding plan, & folding table, contemporary half calf, worn; Volney, C.F., comte de Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784 & 1785. London, 1788. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding maps, 3 folding plates, 19th century half calf, slight dampstaining to some plates and maps, worn, one cover detached; De Lamartine, A. Souvenirs, Impressions, Pensées et Paysages pendant un Voyage en Orient. Paris, 1835. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps, folding table, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting; Parrot, Friedrich Journey to Ararat. London, 1845. 8vo, folding map, illustrations, contemporary calf, worn, cover detached; Paton, A. The Modern Syrians. London, 1844. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary calf, spine worn with loss, all with Society of Writers to the Signet gilt stamp to covers (10)