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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 230

WOOD (ROBERT)
The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WOOD (ROBERT)

The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, 57 engraved plates (one on 3 sheets joined), after G.B. Borra, 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, light spotting to title, short tear repaired to plate 32, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco gilt spine label, rubbed [Fowler 443; Harris 939], folio (575 x 380mm.), [no publisher], 1753

Footnotes

The Ruins of Palmrya was "the first of a new breed of archaeological works presenting the results of on-the-spot investigations of ancient monuments, with ostensibly accurate measured drawings of the ruins, precise descriptions of the state in which they were discovered, and exact copies of what inscriptions there were" (Harris). The work was the result of an expedition to the Levant undertaken by Wood in 1750-51. Many of the buildings were destroyed between 2015 and 2017.

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