[Travel & Exploration] Spilsbury, F(rancis).B.
Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800
Spilsbury, F(rancis).B.
Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800London: Printed for G.S. Tregear…by Howlett and Brimmer, 1823. First quarto edition (third overall edition). 4to. viii, 70 pp. Illustrated with a hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-colored aquatint plates by W. Stack after Spilsbury. Full brown morocco, stamped in gilt, front and rear joints rubbed, scattered light wear to boards and extremities; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; light offsetting from plates onto text. Abbey,
Travel 381; Blackmer 1585 (first edition)
A handsome first quarto edition of Francis B. Spilsbury's splendid collection of views and account of the Middle East, sketched and written by him while a British naval surgeon during the Napoleonic campaigns of 1799 and 1800.
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