Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route. / By the Author of “Forty Days in the Desert.”
London: Hall, Virtue & Co., c. 1851. Binding: Contemporary ½ blue morocco with marble boards and gilt borders, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt text on two and four, top edge gilt, endpapers marbled. , Notes: W. H. Bartlett was a most prolific and popular European traveler-artist of the 19th century. “A visit to the Mediterranean in 1850 with one of his sons – taking in Gibraltar, Granada and Malta – resulted in ‘Gleanings Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route’.” (Hunnisett) , Size: 8vo, Illustration: Complete with 28 steel-engraved plates, including the frontispiece and the engraved title., References: Ibrahim-Hilmy 55; Hunnisett 118, Pages: P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, list of illustrations iii-iv, contents v-vi, preface i-ii, 3-256, (4)., Category: Book Voyages General; Book Mediterranean; Book Plate Books General;. Plates are generally clean and crisp, a fine copy, bound in decorative nineteenth-century binding. Item #B3296
Binding: Contemporary ½ blue morocco with marble boards and gilt borders, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt text on two and four, top edge gilt, endpapers marbled. , Notes: W. H. Bartlett was a most prolific and popular European traveler-artist of the 19th century. “A visit to the Mediterranean in 1850 with one of his sons – taking in Gibraltar, Granada and Malta – resulted in ‘Gleanings Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route’.” (Hunnisett) , Size: 8vo, Illustration: Complete with 28 steel-engraved plates, including the frontispiece and the engraved title., References: Ibrahim-Hilmy 55; Hunnisett 118, Pages: P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, list of illustrations iii-iv, contents v-vi, preface i-ii, 3-256, (4)., Category: Book Voyages General; Book Mediterranean; Book Plate Books General;.
Price: $750.00