FORSTER, CHARLES. Sinai Photographed or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Desert. With an Appendix [The Hamyaritic Inscriptions]

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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FORSTER, CHARLES. Sinai Photographed or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Desert. With an Appendix [The Hamyaritic Inscriptions]

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew and Arabic. With original mounted albumen photographs by the British photographer A.J. Brown, maps and engravings. Frontispiece photographic portrait pp. 20, 352. Some buckling of plates. Original boards, gutter split needs rebinding. Folio

London: Richard Bentley 1862

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $700

First edition of Forster’s study of the Hebrew inscriptions found in the Sinai Desert, documenting his belief that these were the actual writings of Moses and the Israelites on their flight from Egypt.