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

Estimate: $500–$700
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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Yoel Moshe Salomon

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1883

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Halevy, 413

summary

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.

ff. (5); pp. 96. Browned, few light stains. Contemporary boards, rubbed. Sm. 8vo.

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