Across Watergate Frontispiece and two engraved title-pages

Frontispiece and two engraved title-pages (all with tissue-guards) and a further eleven plates (all bar two with guards)

Artist and Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi the Younger examines the work of the two main early excavators of the palaces

and then the little used Canning Stock Route to Well 48

Short split at the top of the front panel at joint with spine

from his beginnings as part of the architectural avant-garde in Sao Paulo to current works that have helped define and transform urban landscapes

Across Watergate Frontispiece and two engraved title-pagesLondon: Methuen, 1986. First UK Edition. Slim 8vo. pp 138. Pale blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust jacket. No old inscriptions. A near fine copy. 'Across' was originally published in German in 1983 under the title 'Der Chinese des Schmerzes'. The Austrian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and