Acropolis, Lower End of the Valley of Petra Printed Area Measurement_16 x 27 cm open by appointment

open by appointment

Bradshaw’s railway maps and timetables (in both cases the first national examples of their kind

gilt border to covers

Possibly engraved by Thomas Bowen and first published in the London Magazine

Richard Burton saw an example of this illustration in Ogilby’s Africa and in To the Gold Coast for Gold (1881) he notes: ‘it is curious to compare the realistic accounts of the nineteenth century with those of the “vulcanio” two centuries ago

Acropolis, Lower End of the Valley of Petra Printed Area Measurement_16 x 27 cm open by appointmentLondon: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842 45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 33. 5 x 53 cm, slight marginal waterstaining. From the first edition of The Holy Land which, with Egypt and Nubia, form one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth century publishing, and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph (Abbey). A view of the commercial and adminstrative heart of the ancient trading city of Petra. The free standing