This is the rating and price for Edwin Lord Weeks From The Black Sea Through Persia And India 1896 First Edition Antique Travel History Middle East Art British Raj Decorative Binding, 1896

Description : Title: From the Black Sea through Persia and India Author: Edwin Lord Weeks - Edwin Lord Weeks was an American artist. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were able to finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw, and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when he was eighteen years old, although it is not until his Landscape with Blue Heron, dated 1871 and painted in the Everglades, that Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition—presumably having taken professional tuition. In 1872 Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Leon Bonnat and Jean-Leon Gerome. After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882-83). In 1895 Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and in 1897 he published Episodes of Mountaineering. Weeks died in Paris in November 1903. He was a member of the Légion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Munich Secession. (Biography courtesy of Wikipedia) Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers City: New York Year: 1896 Printing Information: First Edition Binding Style: Hardcover Pagination: xii/437 pages Width: 6.5 Height: 9.5 Book Details: This work presents a chronicle of the author's travels through the Middle East and southern Asia, with accounts of visits to Tabreez, Ispahan, Kurrachee, Lahore, the Punjab, Oudeypore, as well as the painter's impressions on Rajpootana, notes on Indian art, and observations on Hindus and Muslims, as well as on Anglo-Indian life. Condition / Notes: This handsome antique volume is bound in light brown cloth with bright stamped gilt lettering and elaborate ornamental designs with Persian motifs stamped in gold. The book shows moderate external wear, with sunning to the spine, very light soiling to the covers and a small red stain on the fore edge of the front cover. The binding is firm. A previous owner's signature appears on the front flyleaf. The pages are clean and bright. This work is illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, full-page and in-text illustrations. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50
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