Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

RELAND, HADRIAN.

printer

William Broedelet

Place

Utrecht

Publication

1714

Description

FIRST EDITION. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, 8 of 10 engraved maps (few folding), with folding engraved plates including a genealogical tree of Herod and text illustrations.

references

Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53.

summary

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.

Vol. I: pp. (8), 511, (1). Vol. II: pp. (3), 516-1068, (94). Dampstained in places, few plates browned and foxed, occasionally heavily so. Contemporary calf, rubbed, extremities scuffed. Thick 4to.

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