Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 148

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, complete with 10 engraved maps (several folding), with folding engraved plates including a genealogical tree of Herod and numismatic illustrations in the text. * Vol. I: pp. (8), 511, (1). * Vol. II: pp. (3), 516-1068, (94). Some browning. Later boards, upper cover of vol. I detached along with opening few leaves. Thick 4to. Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53.

Utrecht: William Broedelet 1714

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

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.