Jerusalem Explored: Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of View, Ground Plans, and Sections
London, Cambridge: Bell and Daldy / Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864. Hardcover. Folio. Rebacked half leather, with original spines laid down, over royal blue pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on spine. Gilt top edge. Brown endpapers. Title page in red & black, including publisher's device. Vol. 1: xii, 339 [1], with errata and addenda slip bound in. Vol. II: [8] [63]pp., 63 lithographed plates & plans (some tinted, eight of them foldouts) taken from drawings & photographs by Pierotti. With descriptive text on opposite page.
The plates, after photographs and sketches by Pierotti, include a large fold-out panorama of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives, plans of ancient and modern Jerusalem, views of the Royal Caverns and the Grotto of Jeremiah, ruins of the Tower of Antonia, Pool of Bethesda, Golden Gate, Mosque El-Aksa, Church of the Resurrection, Hospital of St. John, Church of St. Ann, Tomb of David, Tomb of the Virgin Mary, Mount of Olives, Tombs of the Kings, among others. A poignant, most recognized publication of 19th Century Jerusalem known for its beautiful and descriptive plates. The majority of the tinted plates are lithographed by T. Picken and R. M. Bryson with 6 plates each by Pierotti and E. Walker and two by A. Newman, all based on designs by E. Pierotti.
Leather spine of volume one with light scuffing, mostly at head and tail of spine, and very light wear along edges. Boards very lightly rubbed. Vol. II leather spine with slightly more scuffing at spine and light chipping at head and tail. Horizontal white line in middle of front cover. Majority of text pages in both volumes with very light fraying along foredge. Both title pages with two library stamps, one each perforated near top edge. Block lightly age-toned along edges, prints in near fine condition. Good to near fine condition. Item #54429
Price: $1,500.00