Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Peter Conrad Monath

Nuremberg

1716

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.

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.