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

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 316

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, needs rebinding. Folio.

London: Richard Bentley 1862

Est: $800 - $1,200

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.