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WOOD (ROBERT) The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753 image 1
WOOD (ROBERT) The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753 image 2
WOOD (ROBERT) The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753 image 3
WOOD (ROBERT) The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753 image 4
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WOOD (ROBERT)
The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, [no publisher], 1753

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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WOOD (ROBERT)

The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, 57 engraved plates on 59 sheets after G.B. Borra, 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, occasional faint toning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, some repairs to covers [Fowler 443; Harris 939], folio (530 x 370mm.), [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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