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|Named Person:||David Roberts|
|All Authors / Contributors:||
David Roberts; Fabio Bourbon; Antonio Attini
|Notes:||Previously published: Vercelli, Italy : White Star, 1994.|
|Description:||270 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 37 cm|
|Other Titles:||Yesterday and today, the Holy Land|
|Responsibility:||by David Roberts ; [texts by Fabio Bourbon ; photographs by Antonio Attini ; design by Patrizia Balocco Lovisetti ; translation by Anthony Shugaar].|
Throughout Europe, he set out for Egypt in 1838, and during the first months of the following years, he toured the Sinai Peninsula, Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, the coast of Lebanon, and Baalbec. The lithographs taken from the sketches he made during that remarkable journey of exploration in the Holy Land, and published in London by Francis Graham Moon between 1842 and 1849, assured him a fame that has lasted to the present day. This volume contains the original plates.
Of the first edition, in large format, arranged for the first time in correct chronological order, with commentary and considerable extracts from Roberts' journal. Each illustration, moreover, is paired with a photograph that depicts the same a century and a half later.