Lot Closed
May 24, 01:25 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Charles Henry Spencer Churchill
Mount Lebanon. A Ten Years' Residence. London: Saunders and Otley, 1853 [volume 4: Bernard Quaritch, 1862]
4 volumes, mixed edition (volume 1 second edition; volumes 2 and 3 third edition; volume 4 FIRST EDITION), 8vo (222 x 142mm.), half-titles, folding map in volume 1, 6 lithographed plates (3 tinted), original blue cloth, leaves uncut, light scattered spotting, slight marginal water-staining, closed tears to folding map (some professionally restored), bookplates removed, stamps erased from feet of titles, residue of stamps at feet of spines, spines slightly discoloured, extremities slightly bumped
A VERY GOOD SET, WITH THE RARE FOURTH VOLUME (The Druzes and the Maronites under the Turkish Rule).
LITERATURE:
cf.🍎 Atabey 247 (volumes 1-3🅘 only, mixed edition); cf. Blackmer 353