The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart.

Description

Related Names

Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758.
Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713-1770.
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : [Robert Wood], MDCCLIII [1753]

Subjects

Inscriptions, Aramaic > Inscriptions, Aramaic / Syria > Inscriptions, Aramaic / Syria / Tadmur.
Inscriptions, Greek > Inscriptions, Greek / Syria > Inscriptions, Greek / Syria / Tadmur.
Syria > Syria / Antiquities.
Tadmur (Syria) > Tadmur (Syria) / Description and travel.

Note

First erratum on p. 50 is "Page 9. l. 26. For emperor's, read emperors" as in ESTCT137526, rather than ESTCT137525.
Also issued in the same year in French.
The plates were engraved by P. Fourdrinier, J.S. Müller, T.M. Müller, Jr., and T. Major after drawings by G.B. Borra. Inscriptions in the text were engraved by T. Gibson.
"The publisher to the reader," signed Robert Wood.

Physical Description

[6], 50 p., LVII leaves of plates (l folded) : ill. (engravings), plans, 58 cm. (fol.)

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