201 - [Holy Land]. BARTLETT, William Henry.

[Holy Land]. BARTLETT, William Henry. Views illustrating the topography of Jerusalem, ancient and modern. London, C. Virtue, (ca. 1845). Large folio, 7 leaves, including an engraved title page and 4 plates. Contemporary pine-pattern half-maroquin binding, ribbed spine with gilt title and fillet, green percaline covers, title embossed in gilt Gothic type on the front cover, moiré paper endpapers (slight rubbing on the head, covers, corners, and edges; foxing). It consists of a large lithographed frontispiece title page, 2 text leaves—the second of which bears a vignette of a map of Jerusalem on the verso—as well as a small inserted errata leaf. Bilingual text. Bartlett’s rarest title. Illustrated with 3 large lithographs in black on a tinted background with white highlights and washes, based on drawings by the English artist William Henry Bartlett, lithographed by John Cooke Bourne, including a view of modern Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock, ancient Jerusalem with the Temple, and the Mount of Olives as seen from the north. Preceded by two maps of Jerusalem (ancient and modern) on a single sheet, engraved in black on copper by Hugues after Bartlett. Only one copy in the CCfr (BNF) and in WorldCat (Glasgow). HOLY LAND. ISRAEL. PALESTINE.