RELAND, HADRIAN. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

William Broedelet

Utrecht

1714

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. Latin interspersed with Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved folding portrait, 10 engraved maps (3 large folding), 3 engraved plates (2 folding), folding letter-press chart, 8 numismatic illustrations in the text. Head- and tailpieces and historiated initials

Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53

The Dutch orientalist and geographer Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was the first cartographer to break away from the traditional image of the Holy Land based upon the Bible, thus producing the first geographically accurate maps of the region