Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Sepher Eretz Yisra’el. Vol. I (all published).

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

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(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Sepher Eretz Yisra’el. Vol. I (all published).

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. (5); pp. 96. Browned, few light stains. Contemporary boards, rubbed. Sm. 8vo. Halevy, 413

Jerusalem: Yoel Moshe Salomon 1883

Est: $500 - $700

Early Hebrew geography of the Land of Israel, penned by the father of Modern Hebrew. The work contains many tables recording climactic conditions between 1851 and 1882 (pp.47-48, 54-55, 62-76), also includes an account of the first successful Dead Sea Expedition in 1848, led by William Francis Lynch, a lieutenant in the American Navy (p. 95). The proposed second and third volumes were never issued.