DAVID ROBERTS, HOLY LAND, LONDON 1855-6, 6 VOLS IN 3
COMPLETE AND BEAUTIFUL SET IN SUPERB CONDITION
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USD 15,500.00 |
| Current Price |
USD 15,500.00 |
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| Start Time |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 |
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AZAZI COLLECTION |
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DAVID ROBERTS, THE HOLY LAND, 6 quarto Volumes bound in 3, Day & Son, London 1855-1856.A complete, clean and beautiful set in full dark green morocco binding. Excellent condition internally and externally Roberts, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. 6 quarto volumes bound as 3 in 20th-C full leather binding. Day & Son, lithographers to the queen, London 1855-1856. Complete with 250 lithographs as follows: 6 lithographed titles, 2 maps and 242 tinted lithographed plates after David Roberts. Book Size: 29 cm x 21 cm.This auction is open ONLY to those who will pay by wire (bank to bank) transfer. Binding: Twentieth-century dark green morocco. Spine with raised compartments and gilt decoration. Boards with gilt rules. Condition of the binding is fine.Dimensions and Weight: 29 cm x 21 cm x 4.5 cm. Weight approximately 5 KG (packaged weight approximately 7 KG)Condition: Internally and externally the set is exceptionally clean. Both text pages and plates are wonderfully free from yellowing, spotting (foxing), tears, water-staining, thumbing etc. The plates are protected by the original thin blank guard leaves. As in many books thus protected, the thin guard leaves have on them a very faint impression (offsetting) of the plates. Condition Summary: an exceptionally clean and fresh set that will please even the most fastidious of collectors.Guide to Value: Roberts sets in excellent condition (though perhaps not as good as the present one) are offered for sale for around US$18,000. My Buy-It-Now price is substantially lower because a quick sale is desired. What is Special about David Roberts's HOLY LAND? "One of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing and .. the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph." (Abbey). "In the course of two and a half months in 1838, travelling some 800 miles south from Cairo, Roberts recorded the monumental sites along the Nile." (Blackmer). The wonderful plates show landscapes, scenes from the life in the cities and streets, monuments and buildings, mostly with very picturesque illustrations depicting the inhabitants of the individual regions in the foreground. "Undoubtedly remarkable examples of tinted lithographic work .. one feels that the colossal subjects and broad vistas were ideally suited to Roberts' talent, trained as he was in theatrical scene-painting." (Abbey). EnquiriesIf you WISH TO enquire about any aspect of this sale, please send your questions to me first. Only when your enquiries have been answered to your satisfaction, proceed to bid! Seller's Pledge I guarantee the authenticity of all my listings. I also guarantee that my descriptions of condition include all essential facts about the item offered for sale. By 'essential' I mean facts which play a significant role in determining the price of the item in question. If you buy any thing from me and find that its description was misleading as to its quality or condition, you email me with your objections. If I agree with you, you will get a full refund of the price you paid for the item. I will also refund in full your shipping charges and wire transfer fees. You only bear the cost of returning the unwanted item by registered and insured airmail. If the grounds for your dissatisfaction were in my opinion unreasonable and/or immaterial as to determining the financial value of the item, you can still return your purchase but you forfeit ten percent of the price of the disputed item i.e. you get ninety percent of the price you paid for it. Additionally, you do not get any refund for the shipping charges or bank transfer fees.Payment - Personal Collection and/or Shipment Shipping charges are fixed at 100 dollars worldwide. The item will be shipped well-protected with an international courier company e.g. FedEx, DHL. Delivery times to the USA , for example, is typically 2-4 days. Personal collection: Payment for this listing should be made by wire (bank to bank) transfer. However, if you wish to collect the item directly from the seller and pay for it at the same time, you should secure the consent of the seller to this method of payment before bidding. Payment for this item whether in person or by wire transfer must be made within 10 days of the closure of the sale. Bidding on this item implies that the bidder has read and accepted the above terms. Bid with Confidence Over the past six years, the seller sold through eBay several expensive items (e.g. Johnson's Dictionary (1st ed) for 14000 dollars) . All those who bought from him were pleased with their purchases and recorded their satisfaction in positive feedbacks. A bookcase in the azazi COLLECTION. The set offered for sale is on the second shelf. To enlarge a picture, just click on it. (If you have a fast internet connection and wish to see all the big images on one page, click on this line.)
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