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London: Day & Son, 1855. Hardback, recent green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Edges gilt. 6 volumes bound into 3. Quarto edition, dimensions 29cm x 22cm. With 250 tinted lithographed plates, some with hand colouring, transferred to stone by Louis Haghe, the Royal lithographer, after the drawings of David Roberts - comprising portrait frontispiece, 6 pictorial lithograph titles, 241 tinted lithographs, 2 maps, all plates with tissue guards. No publication before this had presented such a comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Lithograph plates include, but are not limited to; Jerusalem, Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, Shechem, Nabulous, Sebaste, Baalbec, Jericho, Engedi, Hebron, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gaza, Jaffa, Caipha, Ramla, Tyre, Sidon, Jenin, Bethlehem, Bethany, Petra, Mount Horeb, The Necropolis, Island of Graia, Mount Sinai, Suez, Pyramids of Gizeh, Alexandria, Abu Simbel, Thebes, Luxor, Nubia, Sphinx, Karnac, Korth, Beni…

David Roberts's 'Egypto & Nubia' captures the essence of ancient civilizations with exquisite artistry and detailed accounts.