Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 252

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

Title printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, complete with 8 engraved foldouts, including several maps, a genealogical tree of Herod; 6 plates (maps) and several numismatic text illustrations. pp. (20), 787, (83) pages. Ex-library, foxed. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Thick 4to.

Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath 1716

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

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.