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Den Haag, Executive Yearbook Enterprises B.V, [1990.]. 1990 207, [1] p. Map. Colour plates throughout. 40cms. Publisher's binding of dark blue half leather with cloth sides. There is a small crease to the leather at the head of the spiine otherwise the volume is clean and crisp internally and externally.

NETHERLANDS, PULCHRI PRESS. 1982. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000, THIS BEING NUMBER 281. LARGE FOLIO (45 BY 60 CM). FINELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN MOROCCO, RAISED BANDS, ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINE AND FRONT BOARD, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED ENDPAPERS. A FACSIMILIE OF THE ORIGINAL 1846 EDITION, WITH 367 PAGES AND 85 FULL-PAGE COLOUR PLATES. WITH HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS BY WILLIAM BROCKEDON, DETAILED COMMENTARY ON THIS EDITION BY HANS D SCHNEIDER, LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS HAGHE. A NEAR FINE COPY, TIGHTLY BOUND AND CLEAN, WITH TWO BUMPED CORNERS TO THE FRONT BOARD, SLIGHT RUBBING TO THE LEATHER, AND SLIGHT LOSS OF GILT. A VERY HEAVY BOOK OF 25 LBS, SO POSTAGE AT COST. A SCARCE ITEM..

London., 1846-49. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to travel so extensively in the Near East. His tour in 1838-9 produced 272 sketches, a panorama of Cairo and three full sketchbooks, enough material to "serve me for the rest of my life" (Roberts, Eastern Journal, 28 Jan 1839). Over the next decade he made "a series of entire new drawings" for the large coloured lithographs executed by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, which was originally published by subscription, 1842-9. No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape and people of the Near East. Subscribers edition size: 350 x 240 mm. Tinted lithograph (two tints). Original hand colouring. Very good condition.