CARNE, John.

Syria, the Holy Land & Asia Minor illustrated. In a series of views drawn from nature by W. H. Bartlett, William Purser, etc.

London, Fisher, Son & Co., [1836–8]. 3 vols. in one, large 4to, pp. [iv], 80; 76; 100, [4]; with engraved additional titles, 117 engraved plates and two maps; a very good copy in late nineteenth-century red half morocco, spine gilt, gilt edges; extremities rubbed, small hole in lower joint, covers slightly cockled and faded. First edition. ‘This work formed the first part of Fisher’s projected series “The Turkish Empire Illustrated”, and it appeared in 30 parts of four plates each . . . . The great majority of the views are by W. H. Bartlett, who travelled extensively in the Levant. These drawings must have been made on his first journey in 1834–5; this seems to be the first book in which any of Bartlett’s Eastern drawings appear. The third volume includes plates after drawings by Thomas Allom, who must have travelled in the Levant c. 1836–7. The text is by John Carne, well-known as the author of Letters from the East’ (Blackmer).Blackmer 291; Röhricht 1690; Weber 1125.

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