Plans Elevations Sections Details of the Alhambra: From Drawings taken on the spot in 1834 and 1837. With a complete translation of the Arabic inscriptions and an historic notice of the kings of Granada from the Conquest of that city by the Arabs

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to the Expulsion of the Moors by Mr. Pasqual de Gayangos. 2 vols. London: Owen Jones 1842-1845. Elephant folio (70 x 50 cm). Orig. hf. morocco over marbled paper boards with matching end-papers. Spine skilfully rebacked preserving the orig. spine strip. E.g. With additional chromolithograph titles titles in red/black ink 102 full-page plates of which 70 are chromolithographs and some heightened in gold. Parallel text in English and French. Some foxing and damp staining mostly to the wide margins in Vol. 2 otherwise fine and complete. Abbey Travel pp. 156.