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CARNE (John). La Syrie, la Terre-Sainte, l'Asie mineure, etc. illustrées... London & Paris, Fisher, [1836-1840]. 3 volumes in one vol. in-4, 21.5 x 26.5 cm, 84 pp. with title-frontispiece and 36 plates & 80 pp. with title-frontispiece and 36 plates & 100 pp. with title-frontispiece, 45 plates and 2 maps, contemporary binding in eggplant calf, large cold plate on covers, double gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs, gilt roulette on edges, double gilt inner fillet, gilt edges. First French edition, illustrated with 120 engraved plates after W. H. Bartlett, W. Purser, etc., and 2 maps of the Near East and Asia Minor, a fine copy in a romantic binding. Two scratched wet library stamps and small ink annotations on first title. Wet stamp of the philosophy department of a Belgian library on verso of first title leaf with trace of transfer stamp. Marginal spotting to boards. Slightly oiled spine, small tear to upper headpiece.
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CARNE (John). La Syrie, la Terre-Sainte, l'Asie mineure, etc. illustrées... London & Paris, Fisher, [1836-1840]. 3 volumes in one vol. in-4, 21.5 x 26.5 cm, 84 pp. with title-frontispiece and 36 plates & 80 pp. with title-frontispiece and 36 plates & 100 pp. with title-frontispiece, 45 plates and 2 maps, contemporary binding in eggplant calf, large cold plate on covers, double gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs, gilt roulette on edges, double gilt inner fillet, gilt edges. First French edition, illustrated with 120 engraved plates after W. H. Bartlett, W. Purser, etc., and 2 maps of the Near East and Asia Minor, a fine copy in a romantic binding. Two scratched wet library stamps and small ink annotations on first title. Wet stamp of the philosophy department of a Belgian library on verso of first title leaf with trace of transfer stamp. Marginal spotting to boards. Slightly oiled spine, small tear to upper headpiece.
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