82/3444 [Middle East]. Roberts, D. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly. Vol. 2. London, F.G. Moon, 1843, no pagination, tinted lithogr. title, map, 32 tinted lithogr. plates and 32 half-p. ills. by L. HAGHE after D. ROBERTS, contemp. gilt red hmor., a.e.g., large folio.

- Vol. 2 (of 3) only; trifle yellowed/ age-toned; some foxing (sl. worse at the beginning and end).

= Abbey, Travel 385; Blackmer 1432; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.176; cf. Gay 25; Lipperheide Ma27; Europe and the Arab World 66. Originally issued in 20 separate parts (exluding the map), The Holy Land was initially intended to be published together with Roberts' Egypt and Nubia, but this was not carried out and the works were published separately, though often found together as one work in 6 parts. Contains spectacular views of i.a. Mount Sinai, Suez, Baalbec and Jaffa. "David Roberts remains the best known British artist to have drawn views of the Near East in the nineteenth century." (...) From 1842 onwards Roberts' views of the Near East, lithographed by the Belgian Louis Haghe, began to appear in a series of editions with historical and descriptive texts by the Irish divine George Croly and the English inventor, painter and author William Brockedon." (Europe and the Arab World). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.