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

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $700

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Richard Bentley

Place

London

Publication

1862

Description

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

summary

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.

pp. 20, 352. Some buckling of plates. Original boards, gutter split needs rebinding. Folio

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