Auction House	Bonhams
Website	www.bonhams.com
Auction Name	Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Sale Number	18784
Auction Date	Mar 22, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011

Lot Number	75
Author	ROBERTS (DAVID)
Title	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.
Year Published	1842
Description	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, With Historical Descriptions by the Revd George Croly, 6 vol., 6 lithographed pictorial titles, 121 tinted lithographed plates and 120 half-page titnted lithographs, by Louis Haghe after Roberts, ALL COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, lithographed portrait of the author by C. Baugniet on india paper, mounted, 2 engraved maps (browned), some spotting as usual, one or two plates with light dampstains, publisher's dark purple half morocco, gilt arms of Jerusalem on upper covers, gilt panelled spines, g.e., corners worn [Abbey, Travel 385 and 272; Tooley 401-402; Blackmer 1432], elephant folio (602 x 429mm.), F.G. Moon, 1842-1849
Lot Note	One of a very few coloured copies where the plates are not mounted on card. An advantage of this issue is the absence of any cockling that bedevils many copies on card. Sir Eldon Gorst (1861–1911), diplomatist and colonial administrator, whose controversial and influential career in Egypt culminated in four years as Consul General from 1907 to 1911, when he was succeeded by Kitchener (see entry in DNB); thence by descent to the current owners.
Estimated Price	GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00( USD 105700.00 - USD 135900.00)
Actual Price	GBP 84,000.00 ( USD 126840.00)