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Auction 72 · Lot 143
Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.
- Estimate
- $700–$900
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).
printer
Peter Conrad Monath
Place
Nuremberg
Publication
1716
Description
Title printed in red and black with engraved device, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved allegorical title. 6 engraved foldouts, including several maps, a genealogical tree of Herod; 6 plates (maps) and several numismatic text illustrations. Some applied color.
summary
The Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was the first scholar to 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.
pp. (18), 787, (83) pages. Stamp on title-page. Contemporary vellum. Thick 4to.
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