Sotheby's (London)

(28 cm), 194 (18) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 1097 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - Collection of books on the Levant gathered by Camille Aboussouan, Lebanese ambassador to UNESCO. “The quality of this large collection was various, some good, others less so, others again rather spoiled by the owner’s conspicuous device stamped on bindings and title pages… The top price was £26,000, paid for a set of drawings of the Levant, made c. 1839 for the Prince de Joinville, serving in the escadre de l’est of the French navy” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1993, p.401). ¶ Annotated in ink; partly priced.