BARTLETT (William Henry). Views illustrating the typography - Lot 257

BARTLETT (William Henry). Views illustrating the typography of Jerusalem, ancient and modern. London, C. Virtue, [ca 1845]. Large folio, 7 ff. including engraved title and 4 lithographed plates. Contemporary green half-maroquin, 5-rib spine, gilt title and gilt fillet, green percaline boards, gilt title in gilt Gothic lettering on first board (slight rubbing to covers, boards and corners, foxing). It consists of an engraved title, two text leaves, the second of which features a vignette of a map of Jerusalem on the verso, and a small Errata leaf inserted. It is illustrated with four large views by the English artist William Henry Bartlett, lithographed by John Cooke Bourne and W. Huges, including two plans of Jerusalem (ancient and modern) and views of modern Jerusalem, ancient Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives from the north.