Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

William Broedelet

Utrecht

1714

FIRST EDITION . Two volumes bound in one. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, 10 engraved maps (few folding), with folding engraved plates and text illustrations.

Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53.

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.