WOOD, ROBERT and JAMES DAWKINS]. The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart. London 1753. Large folio, old half russia gilt, rebacked with old backstrip laid down, worn, foxed, some spotting. FIRST EDITION (an edition in French was published the same year), 57 numbered engraved plates on 59 sheets including the three-sheet panoramic plate I, by P. Foudrinier, J.S. and T.M. Müller and T. Major after Giovanni Battista Borra; an inserted engraving by I. Hall after Hamilton, 1772. Berlin Catalogue 1884; Fowler 443. Bookplate of Percy B. Tubbs. (Milne)
WOOD, ROBERT and JAMES DAWKINS]. The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart. London 1753. Large folio, old half russia gilt, rebacked with old backstrip laid down, worn, foxed, some spotting. FIRST EDITION (an edition in French was published the same year), 57 numbered engraved plates on 59 sheets including the three-sheet panoramic plate I, by P. Foudrinier, J.S. and T.M. Müller and T. Major after Giovanni Battista Borra; an inserted engraving by I. Hall after Hamilton, 1772. Berlin Catalogue 1884; Fowler 443. Bookplate of Percy B. Tubbs. (Milne)
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