THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS OR ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL
by Warburton, Eliot
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George P. Putnam & Company, NY, 1850 2 volumes in 1 book with appendix. xiv, 268; 242 printed pages. Tissue-guarded, steel engraved frontispiece of a street in Jerusalem (Governor's House). Silk ribbon place-marker. Contemporary ownership signature and and associated ink stamp. 13 x 18.5 cm. Contemporary full cream goatskin. Spine with black leather label and hand-tooled gilt foliate scrolling. (somewhat abraded in spots). Corners very slightly bumped. Classic work on travels to Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Greece. Provenance:- Archibald Reid of Auchenbothie House in Kilmalcolm- built in 1898 a Baronial mansion by William Leiper FRIBA RSA (1839-1916), a Scottish architect notable particularly for his domestic architecture. It had a simple, detached, two-bedroom cottage as its gate lodge, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh who drew and signed three unexecuted designs for the lodge, as well as the design that was eventually built & was named as architect in the county planning authority's Register of New Buildings in October 1901.. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5039
- Title
- THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS OR ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL
- Author
- Warburton, Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George P. Putnam & Company, NY
- Date Published
- 1850
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My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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