Shivchei Yerushalayim [an anthology of works (including R. Chaim Vital and R. Isaac Luria) on the Holy Sites]. Edited by Yaakov b. Moshe Chaim Baruch.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

A. Castillo and E. Saadon

Livorno

1785

FIRST EDITION . Title within woodcut floral border.

Vinograd, Livorno 216.

This work became extremely popular due to its detailed, lively descriptions of various places and sites throughout Eretz Israel (including customs of both Jews and Arabs). It includes an anonymous 16th-century travelogue of Eretz Israel, information pertaining to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes, identifies the graves of various Sages, excerpts from the travels of Benjamin of Tudela, meditative prayers, etc.