Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 334

RELAND, HADRIAN.

Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, 8 of 10 engraved maps (few folding), with folding engraved plates including a genealogical tree of Herod and text illustrations. Vol. I: pp. (8), 511, (1). Vol. II: pp. (3), 516-1068, (94). Dampstained in places, few plates browned and foxed, occasionally heavily so. Contemporary calf, rubbed, extremities scuffed. Thick 4to. Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53.

Utrecht: William Broedelet 1714

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

The Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was the first scholar to break away from the traditional cartographic view of the Holy Land that was based upon the Bible, thus producing here the first geographically accurate maps of the Land of Israel and surrounding region.