the finest early survey of Palmyra
WOOD, Robert.
Les ruines de Palmyre, autre dite Tedmor au desert.
London, Miller, 1753.
Not only an important architectural source book, '... as a dispassionate and accurate survey of the architecture of antiquity; it wrested the lead in such matters from the French, and initiated a series of archaeological works that came to characterize the activities of both connoisseurs and architects in England in the second half of the eighteenth century' (Millard).
In 1750 Wood, accompanied by John Bouverie, James Dawkins, and an Italian artist Giovanni Battista Borra, made a protracted journey through Asia Minor and Syria, eventually reaching the ruins of Palmyra and Balbec in 1751. Dawkins produced the official account of the tour, while Wood did the work on the topography and inscriptions.
First edition, French text issue; large folio (55 × 38cm), 57 engraved plates by P. Fourdrinier, J. Muller & T. Major after drawings by Borra, on 59 sheets (3-sheet panorama not joined), light toning as usual, occasional light offsetting; particularly fine contemporary French catspaw calf, boards with double gilt ruled border to edges, with thistle tool to corners, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red morocco lettering piece, expertly rebacked with old spine laid down, expert repairs to edges; an extremely handsome example.
Millard (British Books), 92; Blackmer 1834.
Stock code 97291
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Les ruines de Palmyre,
DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:
c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
$20,513.00
