Auction 360 Old & Rare Books - Classical Antiquity
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(WOOD, R.). The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmore, in the Desert. Lond., (n.p.), 1753. (3), 50. 57 engr. plates & plans, (plate 1 on 3 sheets, fold.), 3 engr. illustr. of inscr. Lge-fol. Cont cf. (Spine w. raised bands, spine ends dam., upper hinge broken, lower hinge (partly) split, sides chafed, some dam. at extremities, some smudges, a few wormholes, plate 1 w. large tear into the image, pieces of the image lacking & delicate at the folds, the rest of the plates clean, neat & well-preserved).

This work and its companion volume 'Ruins of Balbec' were the result of Wood's travels to the Middle East in 1750-52, accompanied by the draughtsman G.B. Borra. - Sotheby's the Blackmer Collection 1112; Fowler 345.

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