LevantA collection of 13 volumes, including:Buckingham (James Silk) Travels in Mesopotamia, 2 vols., First octavo edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and 25 plates, 2 folding lithographic plates, one folding map, some heavy spotting and offsetting to folding plates, spotting to most plates, lacking publisher’s advert leaf, contemporary half calf gilt, morocco lettering labels to spines, rubbed, Henry Colburn, 1827; Bartlett (W. H. & William Purser, illustrators) Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor Illustrated, with descriptions of the plates by John Carne, 3 series’ bound in 2, 122 steel-engraved plates including vignette title pages and 2 maps, browning, intermittent spotting, contemporary half calf, morocco lettering label to spines, rubbed, cracking to spines, Fisher, Son & Co., [1836 - 38]; Curzon Jun. (Hon. Robert) Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, First edition, engraved frontispiece, vignette title and 15 plates (1 folding), spotting to frontispiece and title, and intermittently to plates, browning in margins, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, John Murray, 1849; Layard (Austen H.) Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, First edition, folding frontispiece, 13 plates and plans (4 folding), 2 folding maps at end, lacking half-title, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering label and symbols, rubbed, some surface loss to upper board, cracking to joint at head of spine, John Murray, 1853; v.s. (13)