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GILLRAY, JAMES.
The Works.
Engraved portrait frontispiece, 582 engraved
plates on 152 leaves, plus 45 engraved suppressed plates on 23 leaves. 2 volumes. Folio,
640x490 mm, publisher’s uniform
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crimson morocco, moderately worn at edges, more
so on “suppressed” volume; front free endpapers defective in both volumes, minor very
scattered foxing, volume of suppressed plates without title or text.
London: Bohn, circa 1849
[4,000/6,000]
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(HERMITS.) De Leu,Thomas.
Solitudo sive vitae patrum Eremicolarum.
Engraved title, 30 engraved plates showing anchorites in their lonely abodes. Small oblong
4to, 185x255 mm, early wrappers, loose; title-page slightly soiled.
Paris:Thomas de Leu, early 1600s
[200/300]
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(HOLY LAND.) [Adrichem, Christiaan van.]
A Description and Explanation
of 268 Places in Jerusalem . . . as it flourished in the Time of Jesus Christ .
Double-page folding engraved plan of Jerusalem by Charles Whitwell after Adrichem
dated 1647;
LACKS THE FRONTISPIECE
. [12], 91, [5] pages. 4to, early 19th-century
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calf,
worn, spine chipped at top; contents soiled, mostly minor repairs on verso of plate;
institutional shelf label on spine, embossed stamp on title, and ink accession number on
next leaf. London: R. I. and P. S. for Tho. Brewster, 1654
[250/350]
Translation of a portion of Adrichem’s 1590Theatrum terrae sanctae with an imaginary plan
of Jerusalem and environs in the time of Christ.Wing A600A; cf. Laor 934 (recording only
the original edition, not noting this translation or version of the plan).
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