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The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Publication
London: [Robert Wood], [1753]

Description

Digital facsimile

[2] leaves, [4], 50 p., LVII leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 55 cm.

"The publisher to the reader," signed: Robert Wood.

Pages 25, 27, 29 misnumbered as 26, 28, 30 respectively; p. 25 (i.e. 24), 26, 28, 30 not numbered.

Plate I is comprised of 3 parts.

Plates engraved by P. Fourdrinier, J. S. Müller, T. M. Müller, Jr., and T. Major after drawings by G. B. Borra.

In this issue, the first erratum on p. 50 is: "Page 9.l.26. for emperor's, read emperors.

 

Language

English
 

Subject

Architecture, Roman -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Early works to 1800.; Architecture, Ancient -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Early works to 1800.; Architecture -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Early works to 1800.; Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Early works to 1800.; Architecture -- Lebanon -- Baʻlabakk -- Early works to 1800.; Inscriptions -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Early works to 1800.; Tadmur (Syria) -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.; Syria -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.; Lebanon -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.