ELIEZER BEN-YEHUDAH. Sepher Eretz Yisra’el. Vol. I (all published)

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Joel Moses Salomon

Jerusalem

1883

The Nechemiah Samuel Leibowitz Copy

Halevy, 413

Hebrew geography of the Land of Israel. “The distinguished author justly remarks that until this day, the writers of Israel have not turned their attention to write all the details concerning the Holy Land in one work, as the subject deserves” (Review in ha-Maggid (26th June, 1884) p. 211). 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