Acropolis, Lower End of the Valley of Petra Printed Area Measurement_16 x 27 cm

Acropolis, Lower End of the Valley of Petra Printed Area Measurement_16 x 27 cmLondon: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842 45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 33. 5 x 53 cm, slight marginal waterstaining. From the first edition of The Holy Land which, with Egypt and Nubia, form one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth century publishing, and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph (Abbey). A view of the commercial and adminstrative heart of the ancient trading city of Petra. The free standing

open by appointment

Camaldulensium

Blaeu’s map of Herefordshire

map of Yemen engraved by Defehrt after Martin

and includes reference notes on tides

map of Lincolnshire

Possibly engraved by Thomas Bowen and first published in the London Magazine

is described as “a very strong lusty man

Bradshaw’s railway maps and timetables (in both cases the first national examples of their kind

Richard Burton saw an example of this illustration in Ogilby’s Africa and in To the Gold Coast for Gold (1881) he notes: ‘it is curious to compare the realistic accounts of the nineteenth century with those of the “vulcanio” two centuries ago

Green publisher’s cloth

gilt border to covers