A Pilgrimage to Palestine: Early Travellers in the Holy Land

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1 DIELEUTE VON BEERSHEBA. MÜNCHEN, Ner-Tamid, 1961.

Crown octavo. Pp. 46. With 4 halftone photographic plates, printed ondifferent paper bound in the text. Original limp boards with integral greywraps, decorated in green, with flaps. In mint condition, bright and fresh asnew.

First edition.
€ 35 --

 

2 AARONSOHN,Alexander. With the Turks in Palestine. London, Constable, 1917.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 126, (2) publisher’s catalogue of recent war literature.Hardcover, original beige cloth, lettered in black. In a very good condition.(Cloth bit rubbed alongfore-edges, spine-ends slightly bumped, lower flyleaf browned, some spotting tofirst leaves and edges.) Else, fine copy.

First Britishedition. Aaronsohn’s parents were among the first Zionist pioneers to emigratedto Palestine, where they founded the village of Zichron Jacob. Soon after theGerman invasion of Belgium at the outbreak of the First World War the Turkisharmy was mobilized, and all citizens of the Empire between 19 and 45 years werecalled to service. As a young, able boy Aaronsohn was also recruited, and thisis his fascinating account of his service, his observations of military life,the war, and the Turk in Palestine. Scarce in this edition.
€ 155 --

 

3 ALEXANDER,Wilhelm. Die Gesellschaftsreise nachPalästina im Jahre 5670 - 1910. Sátoraljaújhely,W. Alexander, 1910.

Small octavo. Pp. 288. Portrait frontispiece and another plate. Some textornaments. List of participants. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’sgrained crimson cloth, small plate of Jerusalem mounted on upper cover, blacklettering, floral endpapers apparently lacking free endpaper, cloth bit fadedand marked, slight wear at spine ends. Bit shaken, opens stiff, butnevertheless a lovely copy.

- - The travelogueof Wilhelm Alexander describes the pilgrimage, in 1910, of 68 Jews,predominantly Hungarian, from Budapest to Palestine. They first travelled toTriest, where they embarked on the "Elektra", sailing to Alexandria.From Alexandria, via Cairo and Port Said, they arrived at Jaffa. Alexander'sreport is a remarkable account. It combines ahis critical, sometime painfulobservations, detailed descriptions of meetings with the local community anddignitaries, and travelogues of pilgrimages to the holy places, interweavedwith prayers and words of praise, which he brings in Hebrew. OCLC 8313521locates copies in University of Amsterdam, Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek,Jewish National & University Library, Jewish Theological Seminary, New YorkPublic Library, and University of Pennsylvania only. Not in Hungarian NationalLibrary. Very rare.
€ 320 --

 

4 ANSON,Peter F. A Pilgrim Artist in Palestine. London, Alexander Ouseley, (1931).

8vo. Pp. 168. Coloured plate mounted on frontispiece. With 39 plates boundalternately with caption leaves. Roughly trimmed. Hardcover, original khakicloth, spine lettered in red. In a near fine condition. (Upper board veryslightly sunned along edges.)

First edition.Anson travelled in Palestine in 1929, accompanied by his friend Harry W.Wallack. This is a selection of his impressions, to which his comments addmeaningful value. Particularly impressive is the series of the fourteenStations, titled “Via Crucis”. Excellent copy.
€ 35 --

 

5 ARKEL,R. E. van, G. P. Marang, and A. Noodtzij. Langs Nijl en Jordaan: Reisindrukken uit Egypte en Palestina. ’s-Gravenhage, Daamen, 1926.

Crown 4to. Pp. 263. Frontispiece. Plus a number of halftone plates, printedon different paper, bound in. With some line-drawn illustrations to the text.Hardcover, original decorated navy blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. Verygood condition. (Some spotting to prelims and last leaves.)

First edition.
€ 35 --

 

6 BAMBUS,W. Palästina [Palaestina], Land undLeute: Reiseschilderungen. Berlin, Siegfried Cronbach, 1898.

Octavo. Pp. 176. Frontispiece. Plus 7 halftone photographic illustrations on5 plates. Hardcover, original embossed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Very goodcondition. (Front endpapers and frontispiece pasted together, without beingobtrusive.) Good, clean copy with a very nice set of plates.

- - First edition.Willy Bambus (1862-1904) participated in the First Zionist Congress, thoughopenly challenging Theodor Herzl’s ideas. With rather rare views of oldJerusalem and new Rosh Pinah, Zichron Yakov, Rechovot, and Rishon le’Zion.
€ 75 --

 

7 BARNETT,Thomas Ratcliffe. Illustrated by John Spencer. The Cradle of Christianity: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Places. London, James Clarke, (1936).

Crown octavo. Pp. 167. With line-drawn illustration to each chapter.Hardcover, original light blue cloth, with illustrated dust-jacket (this verygood). In about fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. Thomas RatcliffeBarnett (1868-1946). Scarce. British Union Catalog locates only 4 copies in theUK (British Library, Leeds, National Library of Wales, and Oxford). Two othercopies, but of the second edition (1938) are located in National Library ofScotland and in Trinity College, Dublin. OCLC adds only 3 copies worldwide. KVKadds a copy in Library of Congress.
€ 275 --

 

8 BARNETT,Thomas Ratcliffe. Illustrated by John Spencer. The Cradle of Christianity: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Places. London, James Clarke, (1936).

Crown octavo. Pp. 167. With line-drawn illustration to each chapter.Hardcover, original light blue cloth, with illustrated dust-jacket. Trimmedrough. In a very good condition, with many leaves still unopened (bitdust-soiled).

- - First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. Thomas RatcliffeBarnett (1868-1946). Scarce. British Union Catalog locates only 4 copies in theUK (British Library, Leeds, National Library of Wales, and Oxford). Two othercopies, but of the second edition (1938) are located in National Library ofScotland and in Trinity College, Dublin. OCLC adds only 3 copies worldwide. KVKadds a copy in Library of Congress.
€ 280 --

 

9 BARTLETT,W. H., Thomas Allom. (John Carne, Robert Walsh). Fisher’s Views: Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c., &c.,Illustrated. [BOUND WITH:] Fisher’s Illustrations of Constantinople and ItsEnvirons. London, Fisher, 1838.

Two volumes bound in one. Crown quarto album of plates. I: Pp. Steelengraved title, engraved map of Palestine and Syria, engraved map of AsiaMinor, 41 steel engraved plates with tissue guards; II: Steel engraved title,engraved map of Constantinople and the Bosphorus, 29 steel engraved plates withtissue guards. Hardcover, contemporary three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth,spine richly gilt ornate, sides gilt panelled. All edges gilt, marbledendpapers. In about fine condition (corners chafed; name clipped off back freeendpaper; some spotting, foxing; bookplate). A handsome copy.

- - A superb collection of plates in twovolumes which represents two major illustrative works on 19th centuryPalestine, Syria, Asia Minor, and Turkey, as well as parts of Europe. Mostplates of the first volume, by Bartlett and Allom with few additions by W.Brockedon, were printed in 1836 and published two years later together withmore recent additions. The second collection, almost entirely by Allom withsome additions by F. Herve and C. Bentley, was published at the same year.Tobler, 148 (Carne); 167 (Bartlett).
€ 650 --

 

10 BÄUBLER,Theodor. Heilige Stätten der Bibel. Zürich, Orell Füssli, 1929.

Crown octavo. Pp. 24. Plus 62 halftone photographic plates, printed in warmblack on different paper. Plus 16 pages of illustrated publisher’s catalogue.Hardcover, original pictorial boards. In a very good condition. (Ownershipinscription to front free endpaper.) Overall an excellent copy with crispplates.

First edition. Abeautiful collection of photographs from numerous sources, very nicelyreproduced. Most of the textual part consists of detailed explanations to eachand every image, very often with reference to biblical sources.
€ 30 --

 

11 BOISSEVAIN,Charles. Van dag to dag in het Oosten. Haarlem, Willink, ca. 1895.

Royal octavo. Pp. 339. Hardcover, original three-quarter red cloth andmarbled boards, spine gilt, flowered endpapers in green and gold. Ribbonmarker. With a newspaper review of the book, dated in pencil 1896, pasted ontoblank prelim (brown offset). In a very good condition (old private ownershipstamp, faint brown stains to two leaves, pencil marks in margins). Nice copy.

First edition.
€ 60 --

 

12 BOLITHO,Hector. Beside Galilee: A Diary inPalestine. London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1933.

8vo. Pp. 183. Frontispiece. Plus eight halftone plates bound in. Hardcover,original green cloth. Very good condition. (Cloth faded, numbers painted tospine.) Internally bright.

First edition.
€ 28 --

 

13 (BONAR,A. A.) Les Juifs d’Europe et dePalestine: Voyage de MM. Keith, Black, Bonar et Mac Cheyne, envoyés parl’Église d’Écosse. Paris, Delay, 1844.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xxii, (ii), 471. Plus engraved frontispiece map of Palestine,printed in 4 colours, and engraved plan of Jerusalem, printed in 2 colours,bound in. Footnotes, appendix, index. Hardcover, original half calf and marbledboards. Marbled endpapers. Spine is missing, boards holding on cords. Else, a remarkablyclean copy in fine internal condition.

- - Originallypublished anonymously in English by Bonar, this is the story of a mission setby the Church of Scotland in 1839 to investigate the condition of life of theJews in Palestine. Translated by Louis Gaussen (1790-1863). Scarce.
€ 225 --

 

14 BONAR,Horatius. The Desert of Sinai: Notes of aSpring-Journey from Cairo to Beersheba. London, James Nisbet, 1858.

Crown octavo. Pp. vii, (1) errata, 424. Plus folding engraved map of theSinaitic Peninsula as frontispiece (neat paper repair on verso), and 3 engravedplates bound in. With an appendix describing the route through the desert witha list of place names; an extended index, in practice a glossary, incorporatingnumerous words in Hebrew; a list of mountains’ heights; and an index ofscripture sources quoted in the text. Some illustrations to the text,footnotes. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s decorated brown cloth,large illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, joints slightly split. Avery desirable copy in a very good condition.

- - Second edition.“This volume is really what it professes to be - ‘Notes of a journey.’ Thenotes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, andextended afterwards.” The author, Kelso, 1856. Not in Tobler.
€ 225 --

 

15 BONARDI,Pierre. Illustrated by de Feder. Le retoura Jérusalem. Paris, André Delpeuch, 1927.

Octavo. Pp. 210, (2) publisher’s ads. With 64 line-drawn illustrations, manyof which full-page. Printed on thick paper. Original plain wrappers, letteredin brown. Uncut. In a very good condition. (Bit soiled, rubbed.)

- - First edition. A volume in thel’Invitation au Voyage Series. Original pen and ink impressions by de Feder,published here for the first time.
€ 35 --

 

16 BOURASSÉ,J. -J. La Terre-Sainte. Voyage dansl’Arabie Pétrée, la Judée, la Samarie, la Galilée et la Syrie. Tours, Mame, 1860.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 508. Engraved frontispiece with facing tissue guard. Plus 30engraved plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Engraved plan of theChurch of the Holy Sepulchre. Elaborate allegorical engraved initials. Withengraved portrait and a facsimile of ancient text. Handsome printer’s device totitle. Footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary dark-green quarter calf and blackpebbled cloth, blind-panelled boards. Spine in compartments between gilt raisedbands, second compartment gilt lettered direct, remainder gilt ornate. Whitesilken endpapers. All edges gilt. In about fine condition. (Minute shelf wearto extremities; back paste-down bit dust soiled.) Overall a very handsome,bright copy.

First edition ofthis classic. The abbot Bourassé visited Palestine in 1851, accompanied by hiscompanion, the abbot Jacques-Noél Leduc who perished a year later. Tobler wasskeptical about the result, which he described as “leichtgläubig und arrogantgeschrieben.” The book, however, was very successful and reprinted twice, in1867, and 1876. Tobler, 185.
€ 125 --

 

17 BREWSTER,M. Augusta. Three Months’ Travels in Egyptand Palestine, etc. London, James Nisbet, 1894.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xviii, 234, (2) publisher’s ads. Plus 12 full-pageillustrations bound in. Hardcover, original illustrated wine-red cloth,embossed in silver. Very good condition. (Corners and spine ends bumped, frontendpapers bit soiled with small chip to flyleaf, back flyleaf excised; pencilscribbling to verso of one plate.) That said, a very nice copy.

First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto frontpaste-down. Mrs. Brewster, accompanied by her husband, sailed from London toAlexandria, from which they continued, via Port Said, to Jaffa. They visitedRamleh, Jerusalem, Hebron, the Dead Sea, Jericho, Bethany, and return to have alast look at Jerusalem with all its holy and historical sites, beforecontinuing to Jezreel, Nazareth, Lake of Galilee, and Tiberias. They thentravelled north, to Syria and Lebanon, and sailed to Cyprus and Turkey, beforetravelling, with the Orient Express to Vienna. Mrs. Brewster account of hertravels in Palestine is rich in detail, and her contemplations illustrate hervisits to the Holy places.
€ 120 --

 

18 BURTON,Isabel. The Inner Life of Syria,Palestine, and the Holy Land. From My Private Journal. Volumes I-II. London, King, 1876.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. x, 376; 340, 32 publisher’s catalogue. Each volumewith a mounted original albumen print as a portrait frontispieces. Achromolithograph plate to each volume, and a large folding map, lithographed incolour, to volume I. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’sdark brown cloth, half crescent and a star blind embossed on each upper cover,spines gilt, dyed shelf number to foot, spines broken, detached, this of volumeII only partly. A very good set in about fine interior.

- - Second edition, first published ayear earlier. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate toeach volume. Original albumen prints in books are not common. Invented by LouisDésiré Blanquart-Évrard in 1850, the process involved plain paper coated with alayer of egg-white sensitised with silver nitrate before exposure.
€ 900 --

 

19 BUSCH,Moritz. Eine Wallfahrt nach Jerusalem:Bilder ohne Heiligenscheine. Leipzig,Grunow, 1881.

Crown octavo. Pp. 440. Title printed in red and black. Decorative head- andtail- pieces and initials to each chapter, charming illustrated pieces atbeginning and end. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original blind-tooled browncloth, spine gilt. All edges marbled. Very good condition. (Piece of spine ismissing. Old institutional bookplate, stamp; cloth discoloured, fore-edge of 3consecutive leaves bit worn.) Otherwise this is a nice clean copy in goodstate.

Third, improvededition.
€ 85 --

 

20 CACHET,F. Lion. Met eene voorrede van de dochter des schrijvers. Het land mijner vaderen:Indrukken op eene reis door Egypte en Palestina. Amsterdam, Höveker & Wormser, n.d.

Royal 8vo. Pp. (iv), 278, (3). With maps and halftone illustrations, many ofwhich full-page. Footnotes. Hardcover, original cloth-backed printed boards. Ina very good condition. (Spine tender, rubbed; old institutional stamp.) Elsegood, clean copy.

First edition.Published posthumously.
€ 50 --

 

21 CLAPHAM,J. W. Palestine: The Land of MyAdoption. London, Pickering & Inglis,1946.

8vo. Pp. 196. Colour plate frontispiece. Plus 3 other colour plates and 20halftone plates, printed in tinted ink. Indices. Colour lithographed endpapers(a map of Palestine and a plan of Jerusalem). Hardcover, original blue cloth,spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (this good, chipped). Book is in a verygood condition.

€ 25 --

 

22 COPPING,Arthur E. Illustrated by Harold Copping. A Journalist in the Holy Land: Glimpses of Egypt and Palestine. London, Religious Tract Society,1911.

Octavo. Pp. xiv, 248, (8) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece. Plus 19 colourplates, each with tissue guards. Title-page vignette, pen-and-inkillustrations, some full-page. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, bound in theoriginal green cloth, mounted colour plate to upper cover, gilt lettering,spine gilt. In a very good condition (small chip to margin of one leaf wellaway from text; inscription to front flyleaf, dated 1912.) A nice copy.

First edition.
€ 70 --

 

23 DAMAS,R. P. de. Voyages en Orient: La Galilée. Paris, Delhomme et Briguet, ca.1870.

Octavo. Pp. 378. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, manuscriptlabels to spine. In fine condition (old institutional stamps and label toprelims). Excellent, practically unused copy, fresh and bright.

New edition, withan extended appendix of notes and related information. Tobler, 190 (earliereditions).
€ 95 --

 

24 DAVIS,George T. B. Rebuilding Palestine According toProphecy. Philadelphia, The Million TestamentsCampaigns, 1935.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 126, (2). With frontispiece and numerous halftonephotographic illustrations throughout, many of which full-page, maps. Printedon fine paper. Original light blue wrappers, decorated. In fine condition.

Nice collection ofhistoric photographs accompanies the author’s meditations on the fulfillment ofprophesies as reflected in the building of Jewish Palestine. Provides aninteresting account on the development of the land, the building of newsettlements, industry, agriculture, etc., juxtaposed with biblical referencesand contemplations.
€ 20 --

 

25 DEVERELL,F. H. My Tour in Palestine and Syria. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1899.

8vo. Pp. xv, (i) blank, 269, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus two foldinglithographed maps (one coloured) loosely inserted in rear pocket as issued.With numerous halftone illustrations to the text, end-piece to each chapter.Footnotes, appendix, index. Hardcover, original green cloth, illustrationembossed in gilt, spine gilt, black endpapers. In fine condition. (Neatcontemporary inscription to half-title.) Save light thumbing to cloth edges, anexcellent copy of a lovely book.

First edition. Afascinating travel account, prepared for publication from a letter addressed byDeverell to his brother. The illustrations are noteworthy, being originalphotographs taken by the author during his journey. While illustrating thenarrative, they form a documentary collection of historical value.
€ 65 --

 

26 EBERS,Georg. Durch Gosen zum Sinai. Aus demWanderbuche und der Bibliothek. Leipzig,Engelmann, 1881.

Octavo. Pp. xvi, 626. Plus two engraved views (including frontispiece),three folding lithographed maps (two of which coloured), one single-page map,all bound in. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original half tan calf and marbledboards, spine with four raised bands, gilt decorated in compartments, withgreen morocco label, lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. In a very goodcondition (occasional underlining in light blue pencil; fore-edge of largefolding map bit rubbed; a touch of ink mark to one board). Overall, a finecopy.

- - Second,improved edition. A pioneer essay on biblical archaeology by the GermanEgyptologist, Ebers (1837-98), first published in 1872. Here, he describes histravels to Sinai and visits to the desert monasteries, which he supplements byhis study of earlier researches.
€ 225 --

 

27 EBERS,Georg, and Hermann Guthe. Palästina in Bild und Wort. Nebstder Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen. Nach dem Englischen herausgegeben.Volume I-II. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt,1883-84.

Two volumes. Folio (39 x 32 cm). Volume I: Pp. viii, 520. Fine steelengraved frontispiece plate with tissue guard; steel engraved title-page;title-page printed in red and black, engraved ornamental device; double-pagecolour lithograph plan of Jerusalem; double-page colour lithograph map ofPalestine. Plus 19 fine steel engraved plates with facing tissue guards. VolumeII: Pp. vi, 474. Fine steel engraved frontispiece plate with tissue guard;steel engraved title-page; title-page printed in red and black, engravedornamental device; double-page colour lithograph map of the Sinai Peninsula andEgypt. Plus 16 fine steel engraved plates with facing tissue guards. Bothvolumes profusely illustrated with over 500 fine wood-engraved full-pageplates, text illustrations, vignettes, ornaments. Decorative initials;ornamental tail-pieces. Notes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in originalextra decorated quarter calf and bevelled boards, elaborately ornate gilt;authors, title, volume number, and publisher gilt-stamped on ornamental spines.All edge gilt, foliage green silken endpapers, cloth hinges. In fine condition.(Some plates rather foxed.) Else an excellent set, exceptionally wellpreserved, practically unused.

- - First Germanedition. The superb steel engraved plates are printed here with fine, crispdetail, great subtlety and elegance. Very large, each is printed within elegantplate-mark on heavy, handmade paper, tipped-in facing a tissue guard.Noteworthy are the artists who produced this work. Most of the originalpaintings were made by J. D. Woodward and Harry Fenn. Born in England in 1838,Fenn came at the age of 18 to the United States where he has achieved greatsuccess as an illustrator of books, was one of the founders of the AmericanWatercolor Society, and has been one of its exhibitors nearly every year sinceits organization. Some of his best work is contained in “Picturesque America,”“Picturesque Europe,” and “Picturesque Palestine,” on which the present Germanedition is based. A keen traveller, Fenn has travelled extensively through theUnited States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and the Sinai Peninsula. Otherartists include C. Werner and H. A. Harper. The engravings were executed bynumerous outstanding craftsmen, noteworthy among them are C. Bertrand and E.Brandard, and Alfred Krausse. The plates come from at least three differentpresses, these of A. Schuler, J. Niederbühl, and W. Thielicke are the mostprominent. The result is impressive, and the quality of the prints surpassesthat of the English edition. The numerous lovely and lively wood-engravedillustrations complete this celebration of word and image. A very handsome setindeed, marred only by some spotted plates, exceedingly scarce in the originalpublisher’s elaborate binding.
€ 875 --

 

28 EISENBERG,Anna. Aube sur la Palestine. Genéve, Mont-Blanc, 1946.

Crown octavo. Pp. 194. Original white wrappers, printed in blue. Uncut andunopened. In a very good condition. (Bit sunned.) Excellent copy, practicallyunused.

First edition.
€ 35 --

 

29 ELSTON,Roy. Revised by Harry Charles Luke. Appendix by J. Garstang. Cook’s Traveller’s Handbook forPalestine and Syria. London, Simpkin Marshall, 1929.

Small 8vo. Pp. viii, 548. Plus two folding coloured maps, and 8 maps andplans to the text. Lacks a folding map from rear pocket. Appendix,bibliography, index. With numerous illustrated advertisements. Green ribbonmarker. Original limp boards, with dust-jacket. All edges sprinkled. Very goodcondition. (Dust-jacket, uncommonly present, chipped; one folding map creasedat edges.) Else crisp copy.

Second edition. Adetailed traveller’s guide, containing a wealth of additional information onseasons, routes, methods of travel, hotels, customs, dress, money, etc., aswell as chapters on geography and history, flora and fauna. With an appendix onthe historical interest of the sites and monuments of Palestine. A rare copywith dust-jacket.
€ 50 --

 

30 ÉNAULT,Louis. La Terre-Sainte: Voyage desquarante Pèlerins de 1853. Paris, Maison, 1854.

Crown octavo. Pp. (ii), 422, (2). With a folding lithograph map of Palestineand a folding lithograph plan of Jerusalem (trimmed) loosely inserted.Hardcover, later red three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Ingood condition (light dampmark to bottom of leaves, spotting). Oldinstitutional bookplate and stamp, very neat contemporary inscription, somepencilling. A very nice copy in handsome binding.

First edition.Tobler, 186: “Dieser feiner gebildete mann schreibt sehr fliessend undanziehend.” Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplatepasted onto front paste-down. Scarce.
€ 95 --

 

31 FAWCETT,Millicent. Easter in Palestine, 1921-1922. London, Unwin, 1926.

8vo. Pp. 188, (2) publisher’s ads. Coloured frontispiece. Plus one map andnine other halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in the text.Index. Hardcover, original purple cloth, spine gilt. Partly unopened. Very goodcondition. (Spine faded, some spotting to edges.) Excellent copy.

First edition. Ms.Fawcett was a political activist in the British Suffrage, and retired from herwork when the Royal assent was given to the Bill which enfranchised women. Accompaniedby her sister, she left London on February 14, 1921, to arrive in Jerusalem afortnight later, after spending a week in Cairo. “The ancient city and thesurrounding country were immensely more beautiful than we had expected,” shewrites. Her diary is an interesting combination of travel impressions withpolitical observations.
€ 60 --

 

32 FOSDICK,Harry Emerson. A Pilgrimage to Palestine. London, Student Christian Movement,1928.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xiii, 332. Footnotes, chronology, bibliography, indices.Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt. Good. (Cloth sunned, marked; firstand last few leaves browned; minor pencil or ink marking to few leaves.) Elseclean, good copy.

First Britishedition. With index of Scriptural references, and extended index of subjectsand proper names. The story of a four months journey to Egypt, Palestine, andSyria, with emphasis on geography, history, and Biblical sources.
€ 20 --

 

33 FRIEDEMANN,Adolf. Illustrated by Hermann Struck. Reisebilder aus Palästina [Palaestina]. Berlin, Cassirer, 1904.

Crown 4to. Pp. 134. Illustrated throughout with halftone reproductions oforiginal etchings and drawings. Hardcover, original cloth-backed pictorialboards, printed in red and black. Good. (Boards marked, remnants of brown paperwrapper to paste-downs; old institutional stamp with Star of David to title.)Else clean, complete copy of a lovely book.

First edition.
€ 130 --

 

34 GEIKIE,Cunningham. Illustrated by H. A. Harper. The Holy Land and the Bible: A Book of Scripture IllustrationsGathered in Palestine. [ORIGINAL UNABRIDGED EDITION]. London, Cassell, n.d.

Crown 4to. Pp. xii, 948, (10) publisher’s catalogue. With over 400 engravedillustrations, many of which full-page. Illustrated initials. Footnotes, index,concordance. Hardcover, original decorated green cloth, gilt and dye tamped,spine decorated in gilt, with bevelled edges. Overall very good condition.(Upper inner hinge strengthened, old inscriptions to front flyleaf, somespotting to endpapers, fore-edge of some leaves extending out of text block andconsequently bit frayed.)

First edition(Quiver). “I visited Palestine with the intention of gathering illustrations ofthe sacred writings,” wrote Geikie, who travelled the whole Palestine of theOld and New Testament, “from its hills and valleys, its rivers and lakes, itsplains and uplands, its plants and animals, its skies, its soil, and, aboveall, from the pictures of ancient times still presented on every side in thedaily life of its people.”
€ 65 --

 

35 GEORGES DARBOY,l’Abbé. Jérusalem et la Terre-Sainte.Notes de voyage, recueillies et mises en ordre. [NOUVELLE ÉDITION]. Paris, Morizot, ca. 1865.

Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 399. Engraved vignette to title-page. Steel engravedfrontispiece with tissue guard. Plus 23 other steel-engraved plates printed ondifferent paper, bound-in, with tissue guards. Plus a lithograph map of theHoly Land, and a lithograph plan of Jerusalem with two inset illustrations.Footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf and pebbled cloth,blind-panelled boards. Spine in gilt-decorated compartments between four raisedbands, gilt lettered direct in 2nd compartment. All edges gilt, white silkenendpapers. In a very good condition (some foxing, spotting; edges very slightlyrubbed; small bookplate). A handsome copy.

- - New edition.Tobler, 186 (the 1852 edition, falsely attributing it to Gros): “Schöner Druckund Stich”. Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, born1813, killed by Communists 1871. Took a special interest in educational matters,established the École-Saint-Léopold, enlarged the Grand Séminaire, and wrote(1862) his famous letter, “Sur la nécessité de l’étude”. During the siege ofParis showed himself a true pastor and won the admiration of all. Arrested on 4April, 1871 by order of the Commune and confined to Mazas Prison, he was shotat Roquette on 24 May and died blessing his executioners. Darboy was the authorof several works; only his “Jérusalem et la terre sainte” concentrated on theHoly Land. The new edition is textually identical with the first but entirelyreset in new type. The engraved vignette on the title-page is new, but the fineillustrations are printed from the original steel plates, still none the worsefor wear. The plates here are printed with colder ink, adding them a slight airof transparency with fine, crisp detail, providing perhaps less intensity oftone but greater subtlety and elegance, whereas those of the first edition wereprinted warmer and heavier, somewhat more dramatic in mood.
€ 250 --

 

36 GEORGES DARBOY,l’Abbé. Illustrations by M. Rouargue. Jérusalem et la Terre-Sainte. Notes de voyage, recueillies et misesen ordre. Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot,(1852).

Crown quarto. Pp. vii, (i) blank, 399. Engraved vignette to title-page.Steel engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Plus 23 other steel-engravedplates printed on different paper, bound-in, with tissue guards. Plus alithograph map of the Holy Land, and a lithograph plan of Jerusalem with twoinset illustrations. Footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf andpebbled cloth, spine in gilt-decorated compartments between four triplegilt-rule raised bands, gilt lettered direct in 2nd compartment. All edgesgilt, white silken endpapers; green ribbon marker. In a very good condition.(Some foxing; small dampmark at bottom of few leaves; paper on inner fronthinge slightly cracked.) A handsome copy.

- - First edition.Tobler, 186 (falsely attributing it to Gros): “Schöner Druck und Stich”.Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer, born 1813,killed by Communists 1871. Took a special interest in educational matters,established the École-Saint-Léopold, enlarged the Grand Séminaire, and wrote(1862) his famous letter, “Sur la nécessité de l’étude”. During the siege ofParis showed himself a true pastor and won the admiration of all. Arrested on 4April, 1871 by order of the Commune and confined to Mazas Prison, he was shotat Roquette on 24 May and died blessing his executioners. Darboy was the authorof several works; only his “Jérusalem et la terre sainte” concentrated on theHoly Land.
€ 375 --

 

37 GERDES,Eduard. Naar Jeruzalem en het HeiligeLand. Een reisverhaal, naar de geachtste en nieuwste bronnen bewerkt. Amsterdam, de Hoogh, 1863-64.

Three books in one volume. Octavo. Pp. vii, 343; (2), 310, (1) verso blank;(1) verso blank, 302, (1) verso blank. Three title-pages and threechromolithograph frontispieces with tissue guards, a pair to each book. Plus 10other chromolithograph plates with facing tissue guards, and two hand-coloured,folding lithograph maps, bound-in. Index. Hardcover, contemporary tan halfcalf, corners forest-green, and marbled boards. Spine gilt-stamped, richlydecorated. In about fine condition (paper on boards rubbed and dull, endpapersdusty, small stain or two). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition.Tobler, p. 226 (wrongfully dating the edition as 1862). Very rare. KVK locatesjust a single copy worldwide, that in the British Library. Another copy, inUnion Catalog Southwest Germany, is of a later, 20th century edition. OCLC64502767 locates only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (KoninklijkeBibliotheek, Radboud Univsesiteit Nijmegen, Tresoar Leeuwarden, AmsterdamUniversity). OCLC 64601619 locates another copy, but that of the 1873 edition,in Theologische University Kampen. Eduard Gerdes (1821-1898). With delicatelyexecuted views of Hebron, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Jericho, Mount of Olives, Sinai,Suez, Damascus, and other locations.
€ 450 --

 

38 GERDES,Eduard. Naar Jeruzalem en het HeiligeLand. Een reisverhaal, naar de geachtste en nieuwste bronnen bewerkt. Amsterdam, de Hoogh, 1863-64.

Three books in one volume. 8vo. Pp. vii, 343; (2), 310, (1) verso blank; (1)verso blank, 302, (1) verso blank. Three title-pages and three chromolithographfrontispieces with tissue guards, a pair to each book. Plus 10 otherchromolithograph plates with facing tissue guards, and two hand-coloured,folding lithograph maps, bound in. Index. Hardcover, contemporary brownembossed cloth, with illustration and lettering gilt-stamped withinblind-stamped decorative border. Spine gilt-stamped, richly decorated. In aboutfine condition (some marginal stains, tissue guards spotted, back inner hingediscretely mended). A very handsome copy.

- - First edition.Tobler, p. 226 (wrongfully dating the edition as 1862). Very rare. KVK locatesjust a single copy worldwide, that in the British Library. Another copy, inUnion Catalog Southwest Germany, is of a later, 20th century edition. OCLC64502767 locates only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (KoninklijkeBibliotheek, Radboud Univsesiteit Nijmegen, Tresoar Leeuwarden, AmsterdamUniversity). OCLC 64601619 locates another copy, but that of the 1873 edition,in Theologische University Kampen. Copies in the original, fully decoratedpublisher’s cloth are practically unavailable. Eduard Gerdes (1821-1898). Withbeautifully executed views of Hebron, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Jericho, Mount ofOlives, Sinai, Suez, Damascus, and other locations.
€ 255 --

 

39 GIBBONS,John. The Road to Nazareth: ThroughPalestine Today. London, Hale, 1916.

Octavo. Pp. 320. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original buckram, spinelettered in red. Top edge red. Lacks all photographic plates. Else, goodreading copy. (Some pencil underlining, spotting to edges, bookplate.)

€ 15 --

 

40 GOLDING,Louis. In the Steps of Moses theLawgiver. London, Rich & Cowan, 1937.

8vo. Pp. xv, 355. Plus (helio)gravure frontispiece and 23 other (helio)gravureplates, many of which double-page, printed on thick paper. Bibliography,appendix, index. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original black cloth, spinegilt with small shelf number in neat hand. In fine condition. An excellentcopy.

First edition.Account of a journey into the Sinai Desert. With a nice collection of originalphotographs.
€ 30 --

 

41 GOLDING,Louis. Those Ancient Lands, Being aJourney to Palestine. London, Ernest Benn, 1928.

8vo. Pp. 274. Portrait frontispiece. Plus halftone illustrations, printed ondifferent paper, bound in. Hardcover, original sky blue cloth, spine gilt. Verygood condition. (Neat ownership signature to front flyleaf; some yellowing,light spotting to edges.) Else, bright copy. Fine.

First edition.Nice, personal travel account with sensitive observations.
€ 35 --

 

42 GORDON,Charles George. Reflections in Palestine, 1883. London, Macmillan, 1884.

Duodecimo. Pp. x, (2), 124. Plus 3 lithograph maps on 2 plates, printed inblack with additional colour added by hand. Sketch illustrations to text.Hardcover, original grey cloth, bit discoloured and marked, printed anddecorated in red and black. Chalked forest-green endpapers (bookplate removedfrom front paste-down), first inner hinge mended. In a very good condition,fine interior, crisp maps.

- - First edition. British army GeneralCharles George Gordon (1833-85), popularly known as “Chinese Gordon”, served inthe Crimean War and in the 1860 expedition to China, where he took part in thecapture of Beijing and later commanded the Chinese force against the TaipingRebellion. Appointed governour of Sudan in 1877, he waged a vigorous campaignagainst slave traders. He resigned in 1879, and in 1883 travelled to the HolyLand where he remained for a year, devoting his time to the study of Biblicalhistory and of the antiquities of Jerusalem. In 1884 he was called back toservice and was sent to the Sudan to defeat the Mahdi. During the campaign hewas cut-off and besieged at Khartoum for 10 months. A relief expedition,belatedly dispatched from England, reached the garrison two days after it hadbeen stormed by the Mahdists, who killed Gordon. Gordon’s death stirred publicindignation and contributed to the collapse of the Gladstone government in1885. “Reflections in Palestine” is based on Gordon’s observations during hisyear-long visit to the Holy Land. It was published by his friends while he wasposted in Khartoum, shortly before his death. The book is divided intoTopographical and Religious sections. In the first, Gordon describes in detailthe topography and architecture of some of the major holy places he hadvisited, while the second part is dedicated to the religious contemplationsthese places has aroused in him. Lytton Strachey, in “Eminent Victorians”(1918), writes this wonderful memoir of Gordon: “During the year 1883, asolitary English gentleman was to be seen, wandering, with a thick book underhis arm, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. To the friendly inquirer, he wouldexplain that he was engaged in elucidating four questions: the site of thecrucifixion; the line of division between the tribes of Benjamin and Judah; theidentification of Gibeon; and the position of the Garden of Eden. He was also,he would add, most anxious to discover the spot where the Ark first touchedground, after the subsidence of the Flood: he believed, indeed, that he hadsolved that problem, as a reference to some passages in the book which he wascarrying would show.” OCLC 857424.
€ 675 --

 

43 GRAHAM,Stephen. With the Russian Pilgrims toJerusalem. London, Macmillan, 1913.

8vo. Pp. x, 306, (2) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece. Plus 38 halftone plates,printed on different paper, bound in, map in 2 colours bound at rear.Hardcover, original blue cloth, cover illustration embossed in gilt, spinegilt. Top edge gilt. In a very good condition. (Flyleaves lightly tanned, stampto half-title, light marginal spotting to some leaves, fore-edge lightlyspotted.) A handsome copy, well preserved.

- - First edition. Noted classicist Dr.Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. This is the somewhat curious story ofthe journey of the Russian Orthodox peasants to the Holy Land. Stephen, anoutsider, describes with an eye for detail and a sense of sympathy the journeyof 560 peasants on board the Lazarus, a boat “scarcely bigger than a Thamessteamer” and having accommodation for just over one hundred passengers, fromthe Black Sea to Jaffa, to visit Jerusalem and get baptized in the holy waterof the River Jordan. With nice photographs by the author.
€ 105 --

 

44 GREGORY,Caspar René. Zu Fuss in Bibellanden. Das Landder Bibel, Band II, Heft 6. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1919.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 44. gathered signatures, stapled as issued, withpaper-covered spine. Original printed self-wrappers. Unopened. Good condition.(Sunned, bit dust-soiled, small label.) Practically unused copy.

Offprint.
€ 25 --

 

45 GROOT,Joh. de, and G. S. Overdiep. EenPelgrimage naar de Sinaï, Anno 1217. Rotterdam, Nijgh & van Ditmar, 1936.

Octavo. Pp. 79, (1). Woodcut frontispiece. With full-page maps and originallinocut illustrated head-pieces. Notes. Original card wrappers, illustrated,printed in red and black. Roughly trimmed. In a very good condition.

First edition.
€ 25 --

 

46 HAMILTON,Norah Rowan. Both Sides of the Jordan: AWoman’s Adventures in the Near East. London, Jenkins, 1928.

Octavo. Pp. 320. Frontispiece. Plus 23 halftone illustrations on plates.Hardcover, original green cloth, lettered in black. Good condition. (Cloth bitrubbed at extremities, small shelf number to spine).

First edition. Ahighly personal account of a journey to Palestine, Jordan, Syria.
€ 45 --

 

47 HANOTAUX,Gabriel. Regards sur l’Egypte et laPalestine. Paris, Plon, 1929.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 282. Plus 27 halftone photographic illustrations, printed ondifferent paper, bound in. With 6 illustrations to the text. Hardcover, halfcloth and marbled boards with original cover and spine laid down. Very goodcondition. (Overall light tanning due to paper quality; old institutionalbookplate, stamp, minor pencil marking to few leaves.)

First edition. Anice collection of travel photographs, views, touristic sites. Noted classicistDr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 45 --

 

48 HERTZBERG,Hans-Wilhelm. Blicke in das Land der Bibel. Berlin, EvangelischeHaupt-Bibelgesellschaft, 1960.

8vo. Pp. 104. Plus 24 halftone full-page plates, printed on different paper,bound in, and one full-page map Palestine with a semitransparent overlay.Hardcover, original decorated carrot cloth, gilt stamped, spine lettered ingilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (very good with small nicks to back panel). Inexcellent condition. (Boards very slightly bent.)

Second edition.With a nice set of original photographs, among which is probably the firstinfrared air photograph of the Dead Sea and adjoining Jordan River and Lake ofGalilee to be published in a book.
€ 20 --

 

49 HICHENS,Robert. Illustrated by Jules Guérin. The Holy Land. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.

Crown 4to. Pp. 302. Colour plate frontispiece. Plus a number of colourreproductions of original paintings, and a number of halftone plates, printedon different paper and protected by printed tissue guards, bound in. Hardcover,original illustrated brown cloth, gilt and blue. Very good internally. Jointssplit and partly mended, upper hinge cracked, mended.

First edition.
€ 29 --

 

50 HIMLY,E. A. W. Translated by A. A. Deenik. Het Nijlschip en de karavaan: Reis eener Engelsche familie doorEgypte, Palaestina [Palästina], en Syrië. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, (1861).

Crown octavo. Pp. iv, 348. Plus 5 tinted wood-engraved plates, includingfrontispiece, these dampmarked and foxed. Footnotes. Hardcover, originalquarter black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt tooled, with 3 blind-stampedornaments. Three ribbon markers. In a very good condition (old privateownership stamp).

- - First Dutchedition.
€ 175 --

 

51 HOADE,Fr. Eugene. Guide to the Holy Land. Jerusalem, Franciscan Press, 1946.

Small 8vo. Pp. 544. Plus several folding maps bound in. With numeroushalftone illustrations, some of which full-page; indices. Illustratedtail-pieces to each chapter. Ribbon marker. Hardcover, original pale red cloth,gilt. Very good condition. (Lower board bit stained at edges, overall browningdue to paper quality, marginal waterstain to fore-edge of about half theleaves, well away from text; neat inscription to front flyleaf.) Neat copy witha rather fresh set of maps.

First edition.Guide to pilgrims to the Holy Land. Includes a geographical, historical, andarchaeological outline, and a rather detailed description of the routes byrailway from Kantara, Haifa, and Jaffa to Jerusalem. Continues with a practicaland theological guide to the visitor within- and without the walls ofJerusalem, the city’s environs, Bethlehem, Jericho. With several detailedjourneys: from Jerusalem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Tiberias, Haifa, andMount Carmel, as well as to Safed, Capernahum, Acre, and more.
€ 20 --

 

52 HOLITSCHER,Arthur. Reise durch das jüdischePalästina [Palaestina]. Berlin, Fischer, 1922.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 129. Plus 15 halftone illustrations printed on differentpaper bound in the text, one folding map bound at rear. Letterpress device toprelim. Hardcover, original tan paper-covered boards, lettered in blue. Good.(Spine scuffed/chipped with loss, overall light tanning due to poor quality ofpaper.) Internally complete and clean; map crisp, in fine condition.

First edition,first printing. 1st to 10th Thousand. Original photographs of towns, settlers,holy places, landscape.
€ 40 --

 

53 (HOLLANDRE,Jean Baptiste Antoine). La Terre Sainte, ou descriptiondes lieux les plus célèbres de la Palestine, accompagnée du texte del’Ecriture-Sainte, relatif à chaque monument. Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, 1824.

Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume, paginated continuously. Pp. (ii), 90;91-356. Letterpress device to title-page, Imprimatur, dated 1824, on verso;half-title with Approbation, dated 1818, on verso. List of subscribers.Footnotes. Printed on laid paper. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth andmarbled boards, spine gilt, with small shelf label. All edges sprinkled. Inabout fine condition (old institutional stamps and label).

- - Travel accountto the Holy Land. Not in Tobler, who lists the 1819 edition and the 1860edition only.
€ 185 --

 

54 (HOLLANDRE,Jean Baptiste Antoine). La Terre Sainte, ou descriptiondes lieux les plus célèbres de la Palestine, accompagnée du texte del’Ecriture-Sainte, relatif à chaque monument. Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, 1824.

Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume, paginated continuously. Pp. (ii), 90;91-356. Letterpress device to title-page, Imprimatur, dated 1824, on verso;half-title with Approbation, dated 1818, on verso. List of subscribers.Footnotes. Printed on laid paper, untrimmed. Original printed wrappers(slightly frayed). In good condition. With contemporary Prize label inmanuscript.

Travel account tothe Holy land. Not in Tobler, who lists the 1819 edition and the 1860 editiononly.
€ 175 --

 

55 (HOLLANDRE,Jean Baptiste Antoine). La Terre Sainte, ou descriptiondes lieux les plus célèbres de la Palestine, accompagnée du texte del’Ecriture-Sainte, relatif à chaque monument. Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, 1824.

Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume, paginated continuously. Pp. (ii), 90;91-356. Plus engraved map of the Holy Land, laid-down on contemporary paper,loosely inserted. Letterpress device to title-page, Imprimatur, dated 1824, onverso; half-title with Approbation, dated 1818, on verso. List of subscribers.Footnotes. Printed on laid paper. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf andfloral-embossed paper over boards;cloth corners. Spine with raised bands between 5 compartments, lettered directin 2nd compartment, remainder gilt-embossed with decorative motifs, boards bitsunned, marked; marbled endpapers and edges. In about fine condition. Overallan excellent copy.

Travel account tothe Holy land. Not in Tobler, who lists the 1819 edition and the 1860 editiononly. This copy includes the scarce map “Palestine ou Terre Sainte”. “A joindreà l’édition de la Bibliotheque catholique de la Belgique,” it is hardly presentin any of “La Terre Sainte...” editions, either because it has been removed ornot included at all. Engraved, measuring ca. 260X185 mm, unsigned, it depictsthe Holy Land from Lebanon at the north, down to the southern shore of the DeadSea. Scarce.
€ 265 --

 

56 HUGHES,Hugh Price. The Morning Land of History: AVisit to Greece, Palestine and Egypt. London, Marshall, 1901.

8vo. Pp. xii, 340. Plus folding colour lithographed map tipped-in at rear asissued, and a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper,bound in. Hardcover, original gold embossed prize binding, mahogany cloth gilt,spine gilt. Top edge gilt. A handsome copy in a near fine condition. (Old prizebookplate to front paste-down.)

First edition.Nicely illustrated with original photographs.
€ 65 --

 

57 HUGHES,Hugh Price. The Morning Land of History: AVisit to Greece, Palestine and Egypt. London, Marshall, 1901.

Octavo. Pp. xii, 340. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Plus foldingcolour lithograph map tipped-in at rear as issued, and a number of halftoneillustrations printed on different paper, bound in. Hardcover, original redcloth gilt, spine gilt (faded, bit chipped at foot). In a very good condition(foxing).

First edition.Nicely illustrated with original photographs.
€ 75 --

 

58 HYAMSON,Albert M. Palestine Old and New. London, Methuen, 1928.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xii, 287, (8) publisher’s catalogue. Frontispiece. Plushalftone plates with 28 photographic illustrations, printed on different paper,bound in. Front endpapers illustrated with a railway map of Palestine.Hardcover, original green cloth, embossed, spine gilt, with printeddust-jacket. In fine condition. (Light tanning to flyleaves, neat oldpresentation signatures to blank verso of front flyleaf; dust-jacket iscomplete and nice, a little dusty and with small nicks to foot.) Excellentcopy.

First edition. Witha beautiful collection of views of Palestine.
€ 40 --

 

59 IRBY,Charles Leonard, and James Mangles. Travelsin Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land, including a Journey round theDead Sea, and through the Country East of the Jordan. London, John Murray, 1868.

Crown octavo. Pp. viii, 150. Set in double columns. Hardcover, original bluecloth, spine gilt, contemporary parochial library rules pasted onto frontflyleaf, bookplates, old stamps, some pencil underlining. In a very goodcondition. A nice copy of a lovely book.

New Edition. Notedclassicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. On August 14, 1816,Irby and Mangles, Commanders in the Royal Navy, left England on their way tothe Levant, where they travelled together for more than four years. After theirreturn in the end of 1820 they published a selection of their correspondencewith their families, and offered it as a limited edition, for privatecirculation only, to their friends. This was so well received, and the copieswere in such request, that the two had asked publisher John Murray of London topublish the book commercially. This is a fascinating book, describing in greatdetail their encounters with the natives and how they managed to avoid beingcheated or robbed by them, together with a lively travel diary, rich inobservations on nature, architecture, and history. This copy is of the scarce1868 New Edition. Tobler, 145 refers to the 1847 and 1861 editions only.
€ 225 --

 

60 JOWETT,William. Christian Researches in Syria andthe Holy Land, in MDCCCXXIII and MDCCCXXIV, in Furtherance of the Objects ofthe Church Missionary Society. With an Appendix, Containing the Journal of Mr.Joseph Greaves, on a Visit to the Regency of Tunis. London, Seeley & Hatchard, 1825.

Octavo. Pp. viii, (viii), 515. Coloured engraved frontispiece map of theHoly Land. Plus two engraved maps, one a plan of Tyre, the other a plan ofJerusalem, protected by tissue guards. Footnotes. Hardcover, bound in theoriginal publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt. In about fine condition. Save forsome spotting here and there, an excellent copy.

- - The scarcefirst edition. Tobler, 143.
€ 780 --

 

61 JULLIEN,R. P. M. Sinaï et Syrie, souvenirsbibliques et chrétiens. Lille, Desclée, de Brouwer, 1893.

Crown 4to. Pp. 300. Frontispiece map of Palestine. Engraved title-page. With70 illustrations, many of which full-page, mostly fine photoxylographs (woodengravings from photographs), some halftones; maps. Decorative chapter-headsand initials, tail-pieces. Footnotes, index of place names. Hardcover,contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands roll-tooledin black between gilt rules, lettering gilt-stamped direct in 2nd compartment,head and foot gilt. Decorative endpapers, all edges sprinkled. Cloth innerhinges. In fine condition. (Some rubbing to boards and spine; stamp, label.)Excellent copy, beautifully preserved.

First edition. Theintroduction gives a brief survey of the geography, history, population andreligions, government and administration of the region in general and Syria inparticular. The book, more a research into the archaeology of the Biblical landthan a travelogue, is surprisingly well documented with references not only toBiblical sources but to published surveys, reports, and travelogues of early travellers.The plates, engraved after photographs taken on site, provide an accuratevisual documentation but their loveliness adds also a purely aesthetic touch.
€ 125 --

 

62 KEPPLER,Paul. Wanderfahrten und Wallfahrten imOrient. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1895.

8vo. Pp. 517. Plus frontispiece (view of Bethlehem), one lithographed map(of two) tipped-in, one plan. With 109 illustrations of which one is a foldingpanoramic view, and several are single- or double-page plates, bound in. Set inGothic type. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards withmanuscript labels to spine inked in a very neat hand. Very good condition.(Some old institutional stamps to prelims, label removed from corner ofhalf-title with some damage, tissue guard spotted.) Else, nice copy.

Second edition.With an impressive collection of illustrations, historical photographs anddrawings, plans and sketches, and numerous engravings.
€ 35 --

 

63 KEPPLER,Paul Wilhelm von. Wanderfahrten und Wallfahrten imOrient. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1902.

Royal 8vo. Pp. vii, (i), 537, (1) publisher’s ad. Aquatint photogravure(heliogravure) frontispiece plate of exceptionally fine quality (portrait ofKeppler, Bishop of Rottenburg) with facing tissue guard. With 145illustrations, many of which are full-page. Plus 2 folding lithographed maps(Palestine, printed in 2 colours, and Jerusalem) tipped-in at rear as issued;one tinted double-page bird’s-eye view of Jerusalem; one tinted double-pageview of Damascus; one folding tinted panoramic view of Constantinople; and onefull-page lithographed plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, bound in. Setin Gothic type. Hardcover, fine contemporary three-quarter calf, spinecompartments gilt-stamped with fleurons, 2 gilt-lettered labels. In finecondition. (Some marginal marking and underlining to few pages.)

Fourth edition.With an impressive collection of illustrations, historical photographs anddrawings, plans and sketches, and numerous charming engravings. A lovely copy.
€ 95 --

 

64 KING,Annie. Dr. Liddon’s Tour in Egypt andPalestine in 1886, being Letters Descriptive of the Tour, Written by hisSister. London, Longmans, Green, 1892.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 214, 2 publisher’s ads. Hardcover, original very dark bluecloth, spine lettered in gilt. In good condition. (Bookplate to frontpaste-down, stamp to verso of title, some concentrated pencil underlining .)Nice copy.

Fourth edition.Mrs. King and one of her daughter accompanied Dr. Liddon, too ill to travelalone, on his travel to the Middle East. They left London on December 8, 1885,to return some six months later. The letters were written by Mrs. King to herdaughters at home, and published after her brother’s death.
€ 45 --

 

65 KIRKBRIDE,Sir Alec Seath. A Crackle of Thorns: Experiencesin the Middle East. London, John Murray, 1956.

8vo. Pp. x, 196. Plus numerous halftone photographic plates, letterpresssketch map. Proof Copy. Original green-grey wrappers, lettered in black. Verygood condition. (Wraps bit browned, light offsetting from map, bit dog-eared.)Else fine copy.

Noted classicistDr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto verso of upper wrap. Ascarce Proof Copy of the First edition in good condition.
€ 60 --

 

66 KRAYENBELT,J. Het Heilige Land. Reis doorEgypte, Palestina en Syrië. Rotterdam, Wenk & Birkhoff,1895.

Octavo. Pp. 338, (2). Plus 13 plates, printed on different paper, bound-in.Illustrations to the text. Indices. Hardcover, original red cloth, largevignette illustration stamped in gilt on upper cover, gilt lettering. In goodcondition. (Foxed as usual; recurring stamp, book plate.)

Third, improvededition.
€ 28 --

 

67 KRAYENBELT,J. [After Prof. Orrelli]. Het Heilige Land. Reis doorEgypte, Palestina en Syrië. Gedaan en verhaald naar Prof. Orrelli’s “Durch’sHeilige Land”. Rotterdam, Wenk & Birkhorff,1892.

Crown quarto. Pp. 343, (1), xxii. Collotype vignette portrait of the author,with his facsimile signature, printed on card paper and tipped-in asfrontispiece. Plus 12 collotype plates, printed on card paper and tipped-in.Plus lithograph plan of Jerusalem, bound-in. One sketch illustration to thetext. Half-title. Decorative head- and tail-pieces. Footnotes, indices,appendix, list of subscribers. Hardcover, original fine binding by J. Giltaijof Dordrecht, brown cloth, upper board ornately decorated in gilt within triplerule gilt border, central gilt vignette illustration, gilt lettering. Spineornately decorated in gilt, with another vignette illustration. Lower boardblind ruled. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In a very good condition.
(Foxed; date added to frontispiece; signature.)

First edition.Nicely illustrated. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractivemethods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled andexpensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions.It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
€ 125 --

 

68 LAMARTINE,Alphonse de; J. (John) L. (Lloyd) Stephens; George Stephens; Howard Malcom. Travels in the East, Including aJourney in the Holy Land. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes. From TheFrench: A New Translation for the Present Edition. [BOUND WITH:] Incidents ofTravel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland. [BOUND WITH:] Incidents of Travelin Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. [BOUND WITH:] [Travels in South-Eastern Asia,Embracing...] I. Travels in the Burman Empire. [BOUND WITH:] II. Travels inHindustan, (Malaya, Siam,) and China. [FIVE VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE]. Edinburgh, William and RobertChambers, 1839-40.

Five volumes bound in one. Crown quarto. Pp. 230; 114; 120; 82 plus engraved frontispiece mapof South-Eastern Asia; 94. Wood-engraved illustrations to the last 2 works. Setin double columns. Some light dust-soiling and foxing in places to few leaves.Hardcover, bound in recent full mahogany cloth, spine gilt-ruled, giltlettering-piece, marbled edges. In a very good condition. Generally a finecopy.

- - Variouseditions. First 3 works published 1839; Fourth and Fifth works published 1840.Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French writer,poet, and politician, member of the Académie française. His “Voyage en Orient”was first published in 1835. John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852), “the AmericanTraveler”, was an attorney, explorer, and writer. He was a pivotal figure inthe rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in theplanning of the Panama railroad. Howard Malcom (1799-1879), clergyman andmissionary, is still regarded today as an important leader of the BaptistChurch. He began his career as a Baptist missionary to foreign countries in1835, and travelled to missions in Hindustan, Burma, Siam, China, and Africa.He wrote some of his most noteworthy literature about his missionary travels.In 1839 he published “Travels in South-Eastern Asia, Embracing Hindustan,Malaya, Siam, and China”. The present fourth volume forms the first section ofthis work, and is published here for the first time separately. “Travels inHindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China” forms the second section of “Travels inSouth-Eastern Asia”, is equally published here for the first time separately,and consequently completes the work.
€ 380 --

 

69 LEETE,Frederick de Land. Palestine: Its Scenery, Peoplesand History. London, Skeffington, 1933.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 256. Plus frontispiece, and other 15 halftone photographicplates, printed on different paper, bound in. Appendix, index. Hardcover,original blue cloth, decorated in gilt. Very good condition. (Upper cover bitsunned, unobtrusive shelf number in manuscript to spine.) Excellent copy,bright and fresh.

First edition.Includes a special appendix for travellers to Palestine, titled “A Story ofGuides”.
€ 50 --

 

70 LINDEN,J. van der. Het Heilige Land. Bezien bij hetlicht van Bijbel en historie. Kampen, J.H. Kok, 1915.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 304. Plus portrait frontispiece and 20 other plates, printedin tinted ink on different paper, bound in. With extended explanations to theillustrations. Hardcover, original pictorial beige cloth. Very good condition.(Sporadic spotting.) A handsome copy.

First edition. Ofspecial interest and value is the collection of photographs which is publishedhere for the first time. It was the publisher’s wish not to use traditionalimages of the Holy Land, and much effort was invested in acquiring theseoriginal photographs. It is probably the first book to contain a photograph ofa group of armed robbers, young and old, posing defiantly on a barren Judeanhill.
€ 80 --

 

71 LIVINGSTONE,W. P. A Galilee Doctor: Being a Sketchof the Career of Dr. D. W. Torrance of Tiberias. London, Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1923.

8vo. Pp. x, 283. Portrait frontispiece. Plus a single-page map of Palestine,and a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in.Hardcover, original cherry red cloth, blind stamped, spine lettered in black.In a very good condition. Save some spotting to endpapers, an excellent copy.

First edition. Thestory of the “first Christian physician to heal and teach on the shores of theLake of Galilee,” and the establishment of the Sea of Galilee Mission with itsmedical, educational, and evangelistic work amongst the Jews and Moslems ofPalestine. With some fine photographs, never published before.
€ 38 --

 

72 LOCKHART,Captain J. G. Palestine, Days and Nights:Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land. London, Robert Scott, (1920).

Crown octavo. Pp. x, 140, (10) publisher’s ads. Hardcover, original crimsoncloth, spine lettered in black. In a very good condition (flyleaves browned,some spotting).

- - First edition. Though theIntroduction is dated 1920, an old ownership signature on the front flyleaf isdated “Gaza, 1917”. A fascinating combination of traveller’s impressions of theHoly Land with military observations of a service man. Captain Lockhart servedwith his regiment in India during the first three years of the Great War, andwas then sent to Egypt. He wrote “Palestine, Days and Nights” during hisservice in Palestine. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with herbookplate.
€ 120 --

 

73 (LÖWENSTEIN,Fritz). Das Juedische Palaestina [DasJüdische Palästina]. Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael,1927.

Small octavo. Pp. 48. Plus 2 extra pages with 3 photo-plates, and 6 othersuch illustrations. Appendices. Original decorated wrappers, lettered in red,with a woodcut illustration of a Holy Land landscape. In about fine condition.

- - Second edition. A fascinatingpublication, published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish NationalFund, and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller’s guide to the HolyPlaces, it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. Itincludes background information for visits in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and itsregion, Haifa, Valley of Yisrael, Nazareth, Afula, Beth Shean, as well as somenewly established villages. Further, there are detailed programmes for athree-day, a five-day, a week, and two-weeks visits, with advise what to do andwhere to go on each day. There is also a train timetable and a currency conversiontable. The second part is the history of the Zionist Movement in Palestine, andthe book concludes with a financial report of the Fund’s activities.Exceedingly scarce, OCLC does not record a single copy.
€ 125 --

 

74 (LÖWENSTEIN,Fritz). Das Juedische Palaestina [DasJüdische Palästina]. Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael,1927.

Small octavo. Pp. 48. Plus 2 extra pages with 3 photo-plates, and 6 othersuch illustrations. With a folding line-drawn map tipped-in onto inside of backwrap. Appendices. Original decorated wrappers, lettered in red, with a woodcutillustration of a Holy Land landscape, spine very lightly rubbed. In about finecondition. Excellent copy.

- - Second edition. A fascinatingpublication, published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish NationalFund, and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller’s guide to the HolyPlaces, it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. Itincludes background information for visits in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and itsregion, Haifa, Valley of Yisrael, Nazareth, Afula, Beth Shean, as well as somenewly established villages. Further, there are detailed programmes for athree-day, a five-day, a week, and two-weeks visits, with advise what to do andwhere to go on each day. There is also a train timetable and a currencyconversion table. The second part is the history of the Zionist Movement inPalestine, and the book concludes with a financial report of the Fund’sactivities. This copy includes the road map “Erez-Israel” with indication ofrailways, main roads, paths and tracks, marshes and rivers, as well as JewishNational Fund land and national frontier. Exceedingly scarce, OCLC does notrecord a single copy.
€ 175 --

 

75 LUKE,Harry Charles, and Edward Keith-Roach. Introduction by Sir Herbert Samuel, HighCommissioner for Palestine. The Handbook of Palestine. London, Macmillan, 1922.

8vo. Pp. xii, 295, (14) commercial ads. Frontispiece. Plus large foldingcoloured Railway Map of Palestine & Transjordania, scale 1:750,000, withcorrection slip, loosely inserted in pocket at rear as issued. Appendix, index.Hardcover, original olive boards, spine lettered in black, with, uncommonlypresent, dust-jacket (bit marked and slightly chipped at spine-panel ends butoverall complete in good condition). Book in a very good condition. (Lowerinner hinge slightly cracked due to thickness of map and pocket; one leaf is abit creased with tear at page opening, well away from text; map browned atverso, has small stain to margin not affecting image, and few very small splitsat folds, but overall fine map printed in black, red, and blue.) Nice copy.

First edition.Deals with almost every imaginable aspect of Palestine. Covers geography,history, peoples, religions, geology, natural history, as well as places ofinterest, communications and information for tourists, government, the variouscalendars, and translation of the various alphabets. Includes the Mandate forPalestine in the appendix. Very scarce with a dust-jacket.
€ 110 --

 

76 MAAS, D.Hermann. Skizzen von einer Fahrt nachIsrael. No Imprint.

Crown octavo. Pp. 80. With numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Setin double columns, in Gothic type. Original decorated wrappers. In a very goodcondition.

Nice collection oforiginal historical photographs.
€ 30 --

 

77 MADAULE,Jacques. Le retour d’Israël. Bruges, Desclée de Brouwer, 1951.

Crown octavo. Pp. 194. Plus 2 maps, one of which coloured, bound in.Original white wrappers, lettered in red and black. Uncut and entirelyunopened. In a very good condition. (Wraps bit dust-soiled.) Excellent copy,Practically unused.

First edition.
€ 35 --

 

78 MANNING,Samuel. “Those Holy Fields.” PalestineIllustrated by Pen and Pencil. New and Improved Edition. London, Religious Tract Society,1892.

Crown quarto. Pp. 224, 8 fully illustrated publisher’s catalogue. Engravedfrontispiece with facing tissue guard. Profusely illustrated throughout withnumerous engravings, many of which are full-page plates printed on side one ofthe leaf only; engraved vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; several (full-page)maps and plans; engraved elaborate first initial. Footnotes, indices.Hardcover, original pictorial cloth, elaborately gilt with touches of red dyeadded by hand; illustrated spine, gilt; blind triple-rule frame and border onlower board. All edges gilt. Lovely floral patterned endpapers. In about finecondition (scattered spotting to tissue guard facing frontispiece; minute rubbingto corners-tips). Excellent, handsome copy.

- - New andImproved Edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with herbookplate. The charming illustrations are wood-engravings and photoxylographs(wood engravings from photographs); the original pen-and-pencil drawings arereproduced here in Gillotage, a method of printing from etched metal reliefblock. They are all of high quality, contributing greatly to the charm of thisclassic. Rev. Samuel Manning was a clergyman who, like many of hiscontemporaries, acquired his great knowledge of the Holy Land entirely from astudy of the Bible. In 1873, however, he travelled to Palestine so he could“compare the Land and the Book”. This is his travelogue, though one can hardlyimagine he managed to visit and study in detail all the regions he describes.Noteworthy, some of the illustrations are indeed true representation of theplace, engraved after original photographs. A lovely book, in a very charmingstated of conservation.
€ 125 --

 

79 MARGOLIOUTH,D. S. Illustrated by W. S. S. Tyrwhitt. With additional plates by ReginaldBarratt. Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus:Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. [FIRST EDITION]. London, Chatto & Windus, 1907.

Thick royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 301. Frontispiece mounted colour plate,protected by tissue guard. Plus 57 colour plates and 4 pen-and-inkillustrations, all printed on different paper, bound in. With the appendix “Themassacre of 1860”, glossary, index. Errata slip tipped-in. Hardcover, originalgreen cloth, gilt stamped, with mounted plate to upper cover depicting a Syriantile of the 18th Century from a Damascus mosque. In a very good conditionindeed. (Spine ends moderately bumped, light rubbing; Private ownershipdecorative stamp to front flyleaf.) A very handsome copy.

The scarce LondonFirst Edition by Chatto & Windus.
€ 165 --

 

80 MATSON,G. Olaf. The Palestine Guide, includingTrans-Jordan. Jerusalem, Joshua Simon, (1946).

Small 8vo. Pp. x, (ii), 483, (41) commercial ads. Halftone relief map asfrontispiece (recto commercial ad), and six other maps and plans, some folding,tipped-in; numerous halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in.Printed paste-downs. Hardcover, original dark orange cloth, embossed, letteredin gilt. Very good condition. (Tipped-in maps browned as usual due to paperquality, consecutive leaves browned as a result.) Handsome copy.

Fifth edition. Agreat wealth of information. With a particularly large section of commercialadvertisements, many of which illustrated, of themselves of historical value.
€ 55 --

 

81 MAXWELL,Donald. Foreword by the Dean of Rochester. A Painter in Palestine: Being an Impromptu Pilgrimage through theHoly Land with Bible and Sketch-Book. London, John Lane, 1921.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xxii, 164, (4) publisher’s ads. Plus frontispiece, and ninehalftone plates, printed in blue-grey ink on different paper, bound in. With 36line sketches, maps, and plans to the text, many of which full-page. Hardcover,original decorated beige cloth, printed in black and blue. In a very goodcondition. (Flyleaves bit yellowed, owner’s name to front paste-down.) Else, alovely copy in a very nice state.

First edition.Written before the outbreak of the First World War, but published for the firsttime some seven years later. “There are truths to be learnt from painting whichneither photography, however exact, nor writing, however graphic, can teach.” JohnStores, the Dean of Rochester.
€ 40 --

 

82 MAZURE,Georges. Tussen Beirut en Jeruzalem:Reisschetsen met pen en penseel. Amsterdam,de Kern, 1953.

8vo. Pp. 160. With 40 illustrations. Frontispiece, illustrated endpapers.Original limp boards, illustrated. Fine condition. (Ownership signature tohalf-title.)

Second printing. Avolume in the Avontuur en Ontdekking Series.
€ 20 --

 

83 MERRILL,Selah. Introduction by Roswell D. Hitchcock. East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in theCountries of Moab, Gilead, and Bashan. London, Bentley, 1881.

Octavo. Pp. xvi, 550, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Engraved frontispiece. Plus3 engraved plates and one folding map. With numerous engraved illustrations tothe text, some full-page. With words in Hebrew and Arabic explained in thetext. Hardcover, original purple brown cloth, cover embossed in gilt, spinegilt, all edges gilt, stain to front paste-down, corner-tips bit worn, somespotting. Overall in a very good condition.

First Britishedition. Merrill’s lively account of two of his four expeditions as anarchaeologist of the American Palestine Exploration Society, done between1875-77. Of special interest and importance are the excellent illustrations.These are original engravings, many of them made after the author’s owndrawings.
€ 125 --

 

84 MEYSELS,Theodor F. Friedliches Palästina[Palaestina]: Reisebilder. Wien, Albrecht Dürer, 1948.

12m. Pp. 160. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards, decorated in gilt,with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition. (Dust-jacket, being white, israther soiled, with upper edge bit worn.) Internally fresh.

First edition.
€ 20 --

 

85 MILDENSTEIN,Leopold v. Rings um das brennende Land amJordan: Eine Fahrt bis zu den Quellen des flüssigen Goldes. [PresentationCopy]. Berlin, Otto Stollberg, 1938.

8vo. Pp. 239, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus numerous halftone plates, printed ondifferent paper, bound in. Front flyleaf printed with maps on recto and verso.Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original orange cloth, printed in black. Verygood condition. (Boards bit bent, light pencil marking throughout.)

First edition.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. Illustrated with originalphotographs, some of which are rather rare.
€ 40 --

 

86 MILLER,William. The Least of All Lands: SevenChapters on the Topography of Palestine in Relation to its History. London, Blackie & Son, 1888.

Crown octavo. Pp. 248, 32 publisher’s catalogue. With 4 single-page maps; footnotes.Hardcover, original turquoise cloth, decorated in black, spine gilt lettered,bit rubbed. In a very good condition (bookplate, stamp, sporadic pencilunderlining). Handsome copy.

- - First edition.“When I visited Palestine, I had no thought of writing a book about it,” OpensMiller, Principle of the Madras Christian College and Fellow of the Universityof Madras, his foreword to the book. “I found, somewhat to my surprise, that (...)an ordinary visitor who tries to observe for himself can still do something topromote a better understanding of its topography and history.” In his excellentstudy he concentrates on the Biblical places Michmash, Elah, Gilboa, andShiloh, and the rich history that is connected with them.
€ 95 --

 

87 MITCHELL,R. J. The Spring Voyage: the JerusalemPilgrimage in 1458. London, Readers Union, 1965.

8vo. Pp. 213. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Plus a number ofhalftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Maps. Hardcover,original decorated blue cloth, silver stamped illustration, top edge blue, withdust-jacket (this very good). Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy.

€ 20 --

 

88 (MONASTERY OFMOUNT CARMEL). MOUNTCARMEL. LONDON, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1923.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xvi, (ii), 19-104. With halftone frontispiece and 8 full-pageplates. Imprimatur to verso of title. Hardcover, original brown cloth, letteredin gilt. Very good condition. (Corner of back paste-down bit cracked, lowerboard bit bent with crease in cloth; prelims lightly stained.) Else crisp.

First edition. Theincreasing number of English and American visitors to the Holy Land has createda demand for an English handbook on the origin and history of the ancient Orderof Mount Carmel. This book was published in an effort to supply that need. Itdescribes Mount Carmel in the Prophetical era, the Greek era, the Latin era,and the period between 1631-1922. “Standing high on the steep face of themountain, the monastery occupies one of the most beautiful situations in the world,”opens the book. “Above and below the monastery the wide hillside is coveredwith pine, scrub, and heath, where grow masses of wild flowers - scarlet andwhite anemones, cyclamen, jonquils, and narcissi.” A flower, Anemone or CornPoppy, has been pressed-dry between the leaves of the book, and is stillpreserved, now in an acid free envelope. It would be appropriate to assume thatit has been picked, at one time or another, in the hillside of Mount Carmel.
€ 75 --

 

89 MORTON,H. V. In the Steps of St. Paul. London, Rich & Cowan, 1936.

8vo. Pp. (x), 440. Plus (helio)gravure frontispiece and 23 other(helio)gravure plates, many of which double-page, printed on thick paper.Bibliography, appendix, index. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original blackcloth, spine gilt with small shelf number in neat hand. In fine condition.

First edition,first printing. The author takes the Acts of the Apostles as his guide book,and follows St. Paul in his journey into the ancient Roman Empire. The book isaccompanied by an outstanding collection of original photographs, all but oneby the author and his wife, many showing strong artistic quality, exquisitelyreproduced.
€ 30 --

 

90 MORTON,H. V. Through the Lands of the Bible. London, Methuen, 1938.

Crown 8vo. Pp. ix, (iii), 400. (Helio)gravure frontispiece. Plus 24(helio)gravure plates, of which seven are double-page, all printed in sepia ondifferent paper, bound in. With two endpaper maps. Bibliography, index.Hardcover, original black cloth. In fine condition.

First edition. “WhileI was travelling in the Holy Land,” opens Morton his introduction, “the desiregrew on me to make a Christian pilgrimage from the Euphrates to the Nile, andinto Sinai, and to tell the story of the Christian life of the Near East. Thisbook is the result of my journey.” A fascinating account of the author’stravels from Syria, through Iraq and Palestine to Egypt, where he spent most ofhis time in the Sinai desert, until his return to Rome, to visit the placesassociated with the Apostles. The book is accompanied by a nice set ofgravures, beautifully produced from photographs taken by the author and hiswife. The front endpaper depict a map showing the author’s route, and the backendpapers are printed with a plan of Rome, both from drawings by A. E. Taylor.
€ 50 --

 

91 NEIL,Lang C. (Editor). With G. Robinson Lees. Pictorial Palestine, Ancient and Modern: Being a Popular Account ofthe Holy Land and its People. London,Miles, ca. 1900.

Crown 4to. Pp. 319. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with numeroushalftone plates and text illustrations throughout. Hardcover, originalpictorial cloth, gilt stamped, illustration embossed in black and gilt, spineillustrated, gilt. In a very good condition. (Spine and lower board sunned;tanned as usual.)

First edition.Covers very many aspects of history and life in the Holy Land, includingdetailed descriptions of major towns and holy places, but also chapters on bearhunting on Mount Lebanon, the Arab horse, and the Palestina ant. Very richlyillustrated. With a charming Prize bookplate, dated 1916.
€ 45 --

 

92 NEWTON,Richard. Rambles in Bible Lands. London, Gall and Inglis, ca. 1870.

Crown 8vo. Pp. viii, 252. Plus 15 (engraved) plates and 4 maps. With 6 extraillustrations to the text. Plates and illustrations printed in tinted ink.Appendix, index. Hardcover, original richly decorated pictorial cloth, gilt,spine gilt. Fine condition. (Flyleaves browned, spotted; spine ends slightlybumped.) Excellent copy.

First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto frontpaste-down. “In the year 1870 it was my privilege to visit the Holy Land,”writes Newton in his preface to the book. “...there is nothing like a journeythrough the Holy Land to establish confidence in the great fact that the Bible iswhat it claims to be, and that it never could have been written in any otherland than that with which its history is connected”.
€ 45 --

 

93 OBBINK,H. Th. Op Bijbelschen bodem: Egypte,Palestina, Syrië. Amsterdam, H. J. Paris, 1927.

Crown 4to. Pp. 310. Plus 41 halftone photographic plates, printed in tintedink on different paper, two full-page maps. Bibliography, indices. Hardcover,original green cloth, embossed in gilt, spine off-white cloth, gilt. Top edgered, marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. In a very good condition. (The usualfoxing and spotting typical to this book, some bleeding of dye from top edge.)Else fine, handsome copy.

Second, revisededition, with enlarged number of illustrations.
€ 40 --

 

94 OLIPHANT,F. R. Notes of a Pilgrimage toJerusalem and the Holy Land. Edinburgh,Blackwood, 1891.

Small octavo. Pp. 161, 24 publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, original greencloth lettered in black, spine gilt, bevelled edges, old institutionalbookplate, stamp, contemporary dedication in neat hand, some pencilunderlining. In about fine condition. A lovely copy.

- - First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. Francis RomanoOliphant (1859-1894), the younger son of the painter Francis Wilson Oliphant(1818-1859), was born in Rome after his father’s death. He graduated fromOxford in 1883. In 1891 he published his “Notes of a Pilgrimage to Jerusalemand the Holy Land” which originally appeared in the form of letters addressedto the “Spectator”, to which he was a frequent contributor. He later aided hismother in the preparation of her “Victorian Age of Literature”, published in1892. Scarce. KVK locates 2 copies in British Library. British Union Catalogadds copies in Cambridge, Durham, Manchester, and National Library of Scotland.OCLC 13686843 locates only 7 other copies worldwide, 6 of which are in the USA,one in Israel (Jewish National & University Library).
€ 425 --

 

95 PAPPENHEIM,Bertha. Sisyphus-Arbeit: Reisebriefe ausden Jahren 1911 und 1912. Leipzig, Linder, 1924.

8vo. Pp. 238. Hardcover, original cloth-backed red paper-covered boards,lettered in black, with title label (chipped) to spine. Green endpapers. Verygood condition. (Two-three consecutive leaves slightly chipped at fore-edge.)Else, a fine copy.

First edition. Theauthor travelled to the Balkan and Palestine in 1911. The second part of thebook contains her letters from her journey to Galicia, in 1912.
€ 85 --

 

96 PAYNE,Augustus. Palestine, the Land of Promiseand Adventure: An Account, Descriptive & Historical, of famous Cities &Places in the Holy Land, Visited on Active Service with the E. E. F. Cairo, The Nile Mission Press,(1919).

Small octavo. Pp. 54. Plus 34 halftone photographic plates, printed ondifferent paper, bound in. Original pictorial grey card wrappers, these bitrubbed, corner creased, upper wrapper with tape repairs for short tear. Else, afine, crisp copy.

- - A fascinatingsmall book, written and photographed by the Senior Chaplain to the Forces,Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with the intention to provide His Majesty’ssoldiers with a handy book of reference to Palestine and the Holy Land. Thebook contains a relatively large number of plates, depicting ancient and newtowns and villages, holy shrines, landscapes, historical monuments and sites,and some inhabitants. Most fascinating are the images of pure militaryinterest: a derelict tank; a cannon named “Jericho Jane”; and a mobile gun,nicknamed the “Finish Turk”. Reverend Payne’s text is a wonderful combinationof historical background, actual information, traveller’s notations, andBiblical contemplations. He previously wrote “Jerusalem, the City of the GreatKing” which was meant to serve as a guide book to Jerusalem. Both these bookswere sold in army canteen huts. In his Foreword, Philip W. Chetwode, LateCommanding 20th Army Corps, Palestine, writes: “I feel sure that all soldierswho find themselves, now or in the future, serving in Palestine, will begrateful to him for having provided them with such a useful book which cannotfail to add to the interest of the time they spend in the Holy Land.” Veryrare. Not in KVK nor in OCLC worldwide. Not in OLIS, Bodleian, nor BritishLibrary. Not in British Union Catalog.
€ 750 --

 

97 PFARRER,I. R. Eine Pilgerreise nach demheiligen Lande, im Frühjahr 1897. Trier,Paulinus, 1898.

Crown octavo. Pp. 100. Original printed wrappers, decorated in black, shelflabel to spine. In a very good condition (small institutional stamp).

- - First edition.Scarce. OCLC does not locate a single copy worldwide. KVK locates just 2copies, both in Germany (Union Catalog Bavaria; Union Catalog NorthernGermany). No copy in the Complete Catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
€ 120 --

 

98 PFEIFFER,Ida. Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt,and Italy. London, Ingram Cooke, 1852.

Crown 8vo. Pp. xvi, 17-336. Plus eight tinted engraved plates, includingfrontispiece and half-title vignette, bound in. Index. Hardcover, originalblind-tooled blue cloth, spine gilt-tooled. Very good condition. (Occasionalvery light spotting, some leaves evenly tanned; faint, unobtrusive loss oflustre to a small concentrated area on upper cover.) Fine, handsome copy.

First Englishedition, translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken. On march 2, 1842, Mrs.Pfeiffer set on her journey alone, without companions. “Few men were found toposses the degree of strength and endurance for the carrying out of such anundertaking,” writes her Vienna publisher in his preface, “but that a delicatelady of the higher classes should have the heroism to do what thousands of menfailed to achieve, seemed almost incredible.” Tobler, 165 (German edition).
€ 165 --

 

99 PREISS,Ludwig, and Paul Rohrbach. Palästina [Palaestina] und dasOstjordanland. Mit 210 Tiefdrucktafeln und 21 fabrigen Bildern. Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, 1925.

Quarto. Pp. xvi, 232. With 210 (helio)gravure plates and 21 colour plates,each with captions in French, German, English. Plus a map of Palestine and aplan of Jerusalem. Hardcover, original illustrated lemon cloth, printed in darkbrown and red, spine decorated, with dust-jacket (this chipped, closed tear,extremities frayed). In excellent condition. The dust-jacket is rare in anystate. It is particularly handsome, made of brown paper with a charming colourplate mounted to its upper panel. A fine copy; save for faint yellowing to aleaf or two, in a beautiful condition.

- - First edition.Preiss embarked on his mission of cataloging the Holy Land and Palestine withthe meticulousness of a land surveyor and the sensitiveness and craftsmanshipof an artist. He photographed architecture, holy sites, street life, markets, craftsmen,people of different religions, children, general views and landscapes, archaeologicalruins, the ancient and the modern. These images are reproduced here as finegravures, exquisitely produced. The colour plates are of particular interest,and their quality and charm surpass the standards of process colour printing ofthe time.
€ 165 --

 

100 PRESS,Jesaias. Neues Palästina-Handbuch[Palaestina]. Führer durch Palästina. Wien, Fiba, 1934.

Small octavo. Pp. 552. Plus 8 folding colour lithograph maps and 10 foldinglithograph plans printed in 2 colours. With 18 maps and plans to the text,tables. Six appendices, indices. Endpaper maps. Original plain card covers withintegrated dust-jacket, printed flaps. In excellent condition (oldinstitutional stamp).

First edition. Aremarkably detailed work, encompassing not only a travellers’ guide but asource book on Palestine and the Holy Land which, in the author’s words, isintended to give “ein Bild von Land und Leuten, Geschichte und Kultur,Wirtschaft und Forschung,” and hoped “dürfte jedem Palästina-reisenden einwilkommener Freund und Führer sein.” Jesaias, a resident of Jerusalem, providesa wealth of information, meticulously detailed. He scans the land north- andsouthwards, paying special attention to the major cities of Haifa, Tel-Aviv,Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and continues to Trans-Jordan and Syria. In theappendices he gives a full list of all Jewish villages in Palestine withrelated information that could be gathered from the sources available at thetime, a glossary of Hebrew words, and a concordance of Biblical placesmentioned in the guide. Indeed, the only aspect seems to have been neglected inthis work is a reference to the fauna and flora of the land. Scarce.
€ 125 --

 

101 PRESS,Jesaias. Palästina [Palaestina] undSüdsyrien Reisehandbuch. Jerusalem, Benjamin Harz, 1921.

Small octavo. Pp. viii, 377, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus large foldinglithographed map of Jerusalem and environs, printed in 2 colours, threecoloured folding maps of Palestine, four halftone reproductions of drawn views(one full-page) printed on different paper, three halftone maps and plansprinted on different paper, all bound in the text. With 3 text illustrations;tables, indices. Ribbon marker. Hardcover, original crimson cloth, lettered inyellow, decorative spine. All edges red. Very good condition. (Boards bit bent,thumbed; light marginal dampstain at second half of the book, more evidenttowards the end but not affecting text; neat old ownership signature.) Goodcopy with all plates and maps present in neat condition.

First edition.Published for the Palestine Express Company. With handsome maps and a lovelyset of drawing by E. M. Lilien, very delicately reproduced.
€ 75 --

 

102 [ROBERTS,David]. Text by Ida Huberman. Roberts:Reisen im Land der Bibel. Wien, Poseidon, 1985.

Square 4to. Pp. 155. Portrait frontispiece. Album with 60 full-page colourreproductions of Roberts lithographs, each with explanatory text on the facingpage. Map, halftone illustrations to the text. Hardcover, original ultramarinevelvet, stamped silver border to cover. Preserved in the original illustratedslipcase (small imperfection to one corner). Excellent copy in a fresh-newcondition, practically unused.

First edition.
€ 52 --

 

103 ROWNTREE,John Wilhelm. Palestine Notes and Other Papers. London, Headley, 1906.

8vo. Pp. xxiv, 276. Plus frontispiece and two other halftone photographicplates, printed on different paper, bound in. With introductory note to eachchapter. Hardcover, original olive green cloth, lettered in black. Very goodcondition. (Institutional bookplate and stamp; odd pencil marginalia; flyleavesbit browned, edges bit spotted, spotting to some leaves.)

First edition. Acollection of essays and lectures, compiled after Rowntree’s death. Includescontemplations on art, religion, history. Open with his “Diary of a Visit toPalestine and the East,” in which he describes his travel to the Holy Land. Thejourney took place in 1895, and was undertaken in order that Rowntree might seeEgypt and Palestine before his threatened loss of eyesight should become areality. He was accompanied by his friend and by his physician, and visitedJaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, Samaria, Jezreel, Megiddo, Nazareth,and Tiberias. In his return he brought with him 116 pill boxes of shells fromthe shores of the Lake of Galilee for his students - and a mummy.
€ 30 --

 

104 RUNDT,Artur, and Richard A. Bermann. Palästina[Palaestina]: Ein Reisebuch. Leipzig,Tal, 1924.

Octavo. Pp. 128. Frontispiece. Plus 4 full-page plates with 15 halftonephotographic illustrations, printed on different paper. Hardcover, originalcloth-backed boards, corner of lower board cracked. In a very good condition.

First edition. Witha nice selection of historic photographs, drawn partly from the collection ofthe Jerusalem Agricultural Museum.
€ 50 --

 

105 SALAMAN,Redcliffe N. Palestine Reclaimed: Letters froma Jewish Officer in Palestine. London,George Routledge, 1920.

Octavo. Pp. xii, 236. Map loosely inserted. Appendices. Hardcover, originalcloth-backed paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Good condition. (Oldinstitutional bookplate and stamp, some pencil marking, underlining.) Nicecopy.

- - First edition. Salaman, RegimentalMedical Officer to the 39th Royal Fusiliers, the 2nd Judean Battalion, wrotethese letters to his wife between 1918 and 1919. With his observations of theland, its people, the Zionist Movement, army life, politics, medical work.Interesting in its reference to the work of the Jewish hospital “Hadassa”.Included is a transcript of a letter, sent by Salaman on behalf of the men ofhis battalion to Headquarters, in which they express their protest against theaction of the Polish Military Forces in the 1919 Pogroms against the Jews.
€ 85 --

 

106 SALTEN,Felix. Neue Menschen auf alter Erde:Eine Palästinafahrt [Palaestinafahrt]. Berlin, Zsolnay, 1925.

Crown octavo. Pp. 276, (4) publisher’s ads. Hardcover, original blue cloth,lettered in gilt. In a very good condition.

First edition.
€ 20 --

 

107 SALTEN,Felix. Neue Menschen auf alter Erde:Eine Palästinafahrt [Palaestinafahrt]. Berlin, Zsolnay, 1925.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 276, (4) publisher’s ads. Hardcover, original blue cloth,lettered in gilt. Good condition. (Spine dull, some leaves dog-eared.)

First edition.
€ 20 --

 

108 SALTEN,Felix. Neue Menschen auf alter Erde:Eine Palästinafahrt [Palaestinafahrt]. Berlin, Zsolnay, 1925.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 276, (4) publisher’s ads. Hardcover, original paper-coveredboards, lettered in gilt. Good condition. (Boards discoloured, small dumpmarkto upper board, short splits to upper joint mended.) Else clean, good copy.

First edition.
€ 17 --

 

109 SCHNELLER,Ludwig. Die Kaiserfahrt durchs HeiligeLand. Leipzig, Wallmann, 1899.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 260. Profusely illustrated with halftone photo plates andengravings, many of which are full page. Appendix, index. Engraved decorativehead- and tail-pieces. Title printed in red and black, decorative initials. Setin Gothic type. Decorative endpapers, all edges red. Hardcover, original navyblue cloth with large, composite pictorial colour plate mounted on cover withingilt-stamped decorative border. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

Fourth edition,published at the same year as the first. Romantic, though remarkably detailedaccount of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II’s visit to the Holy Land in 1898,twenty-nine years after his father’s, then Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia,pilgrimage. Beautifully illustrated. The many photographs in the book are, byall probability, by Garabed Krikorian, one of the first students of photographyin Palestine. Trained by the Armenian Patriarch Issay Garabedian, who in 1850opened a photography school in the Church of St. James in Jerusalem, Krikorianbecame later a commercial photographer. During the Kaiser’s visit he wasappointed official photographer, thereafter signing his work with “Photographerto the Prussian Court...”
€ 85 --

 

110 SCHNELLER,Ludwig. Die Kaiserfahrt durchs HeiligeLand. Leipzig, Wallmann, 1899.

Royal octavo. Pp. 260. Profusely illustrated with photographs andengravings, many of which are full page. Appendix, index. Engraved decorativehead- and tail-pieces. Title printed in red and black, with decorativeinitials. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original pictorialboards, cloth spine, all edges red, round corners, foliage patterned endpapers(stamp). On the upper board is a composite artwork, with views of the Holy Landand vignette portraits of the Kaiser and Kaiserin. The lower board depicts theSyrisches Waisenhaus in Jerusalem. A very good copy.

Second edition,published at the same year as the first. This copy is bound with the twopictorial boards: the charming view on the lower board is often not included.Romantic, though remarkably detailed account of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II’svisit to the Holy Land in 1898, twenty-nine years after his father’s, thenCrown Prince Frederick of Prussia, pilgrimage. Beautifully illustrated. Themany photographs in the book are, by all probability, by Garabed Krikorian, oneof the first students of photography in Palestine. Trained by the ArmenianPatriarch Issay Garabedian, who in 1850 opened a photography school in theChurch of St. James in Jerusalem, Krikorian became later a commercialphotographer. During the Kaiser’s visit he was appointed official photographer,thereafter signing his work with “Photographer to the Prussian Court...”
€ 120 --

 

111 SCHNELLER,Ludwig. Die Kaiserfahrt durchs HeiligeLand. [First Edition]. Leipzig, Wallmann, 1899.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 260. Profusely illustrated with halftone photo plates andengravings, many of which are full page. Appendix, index. Engraved decorativehead- and tail-pieces. Title printed in red and black, decorative initials. Setin Gothic type. Decorative endpapers, all edges red. Hardcover, original browncloth with large, composite pictorial colour plate mounted on cover withingilt-stamped decorative border. In fine condition. (Old inscription in neathand, dated 1898, to title page.) Excellent copy.

First edition.Romantic, though remarkably detailed account of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II’svisit to the Holy Land in 1898, twenty-nine years after his father’s, thenCrown Prince Frederick of Prussia, pilgrimage. Beautifully illustrated. Themany photographs in the book are, by all probability, by Garabed Krikorian, oneof the first students of photography in Palestine. Trained by the ArmenianPatriarch Issay Garabedian, who in 1850 opened a photography school in theChurch of St. James in Jerusalem, Krikorian became later a commercialphotographer. During the Kaiser’s visit he was appointed official photographer,thereafter signing his work with “Photographer to the Prussian Court...”
€ 115 --

 

112 SCHUBERT,Gotthilf Heinrich von. Reise in das Morgenland in denJahren 1836 und 1837. Neue Auflage. Volumes I-III. Erlangen, Palm und Ernst Enke, 1840.

Three volumes. Octavo. Pp. xviii, 532; xii, 595; xx, 580, plus large foldingengraved map, with inset plan of Jerusalem, bound at rear. Hardcover, originalhalf calf and marbled boards with gilt decorated morocco labels to spines,spines scuffed with lose of leather, split lower joint to first volume. Withala good set.

The very scarce NewEdition. Tobler, 159.
€ 290 --

 

113 SCHULZ,E. W. Reize in het Beloofde Land,gedaan in 1851. [BOUND WITH:] Leerrede over 2 Timoth. II vs. 8, gehouden op hetPaaschfeest van 1851 in de Protestantsche Kerk op Zion te Jerusalem. [BOUNDWITH:] Vogelperspectief van het Heilige Land. Wijk bij Duurstede, Stramrood, 1854.

Royal octavo. Pp. title, (iii), viii, 424; part title, 425-446; 447-462.Lithograph portrait frontispiece with facing tissue guard. Plus 25 lithographs,12 of which tinted, on 16 plates facing tissue guards; one lithographed plan;one folding lithographed map of Palestine with routes of travel neatlyhand-coloured. Plus an extra, double-page plate, not called-for, with twotinted lithographs. Plus large, folding, tinted lithographed bird’s-eye view ofthe Holy Land, with legend. Footnotes. Endpapers printed with publisher’s ads.Hardcover, original ultramarine cloth, blind stamped, upper cover gilt-stamped,spine richly decorated in gilt. Overall in a very good condition. (Somespotting and browning as usual, more pronounced to verso of some plates; neatpaper repair to verso of map; hinges neatly mended.) Nice copy.

- - Translated fromthe German. Tobler, 183 (1853). The travelogue, reflections, and artisticimpressions of Eduard Wilhelm Schulz, Vicar of the Reformed Church of Mulheimon the Ruhr. This copy includes his sermon on the book of Timothy, given inJerusalem during his pilgrimage in 1851. It was translated from the German andpublished by the Dutch publisher W. F. Stramrood in 1854. At that time, the24-page publication was sold separately at the price of 30 Florin Cents. Thiscopy includes also the lithograph Vogelperspectief van het Heilige Land(Bird’s-eye View of the Holy Land), printed by F. Böger and published byStramrood together with a 16-page Verklaring (explanatory notes), and was soldseparately for one Florin. Both these additions are paginated hereconsecutively. Charmingly illustrated. Exceedingly scarce. Not a single copy inboth OCLC and KVK worldwide. Not in the National Library of the Netherlands,OLIS, nor Bodleian.
€ 350 --

 

114 SCHULZ,E. W. Reize in het Beloofde Land,gedaan in 1851. [EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF 33 STEEL-ENGRAVEDPLATES]. Wijk bij Duurstede, Stramrood, 1854.

Royal octavo. Pp. (iii), viii, 424. Lithographed portrait frontispiece. Plus25 lithographs, 12 of which tinted, on 16 plates; one lithographed plan; onefolding lithographed map of Palestine with routes of travel hand-coloured.EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 33 steel-engraved plates. Footnotes.Hardcover, original blue cloth blind stamped, upper cover gilt-stamped, spinerichly decorated in gilt. In a very good condition. (Spotting and foxing asusual, more pronounced to verso of some plates; neat paper repair to verso ofmap; binding bit rubbed along extremities, spine-ends bumped.) Nice copy.

- - Translated fromthe German. Tobler, 183 (1853). The travelogue, reflections, and artisticimpressions of Eduard Wilhelm Schulz, Vicar of the Reformed Church of Mulheimon the Ruhr. This copy is extra illustrated with a large number of plates fromthe private collection of the German publishers. These are delicately executedsteel engravings, with wonderful views of the Holy Land, and are unlikely to befound anywhere else. Although it is mentioned on the title-page, this copy doesnot include the “Vogelperspectief van het Heilige Land”, which was soldseparately at the time of publishing for the sum of one Florin, and not boundwith every copy sold. Exceedingly scarce. Not a single copy in both OCLC andKVK worldwide. Not in the National Library of the Netherlands, OLIS, norBodleian.
€ 775 --

 

115 SENDEN,G. H. van. Het Heilige Land, ofmededeelingen uit eene reis naar het Oosten, gedaan in de jaren 1849 en 1850,in gezelschap van Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid, de Prinses Marianne derNederlanden. Volumes I-II. Gorinchem, Noorduyn, 1851-52.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xxxvi, 387, (1) publisher’s ad; xxiv, 360. Notes.Hardcover, original half cloth and marbled boards, spines gilt. In a near finecondition. (Minor fading to binding.) Excellent copies.

- - First edition. Publishedposthumously. Tobler, 179.
€ 90 --

 

116 SEPP,(Johann Nepomuk). Jerusalem und das heilige Land.Pilgerbuch nach Palästina, Syrien und Aegypten. Volumes I-II. Schaffhausen, Hurter, 1863.

2 volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxxviii, 781; xxviii, 866. Engravedfrontispiece (marginal stain) to the first volume, and 232 wood-engravedillustrations. A very fine steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author,with tissue guard, to the second volume, engraved Plan of Jerusalem, and 173wood-engraved illustrations. Footnotes, appendix, extended index. Hardcover,uniformly bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spinesgilt-lettered direct between gilt and blind rules, with shelf labels. Marbledendpapers. All edges sprinkled. In a very good condition. (Spines chafed,abraded; first and last leaves foxed; old institutional stamps, neat smallcontemporary manuscript label to each cover.) Good copies with well preservedinteriors.

First edition.Prof. Dr. Johann Nepomuk Sepp (1816-1909). Catholic historian and politician.Studied philosophy and theology, became a professor at the Munich University,entered public life and was elected member of the Bavarian Parliament. Between1945 and 1946 he travelled through Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, whereupon hisreturn published his observations. In 1872 visited the region once again, thistime as an envoy of the German Reich. Well illustrated. A copy of the secondedition, published in 1873, is in the collection of the Yale UniversityLibrary. Tobler, 173.
€ 195 --

 

117 SMILANSKY,M. La Voie de la Liberation. Paris, La Terre Retrouvée, 1945.

Octavo. Pp. 40. Plus 4 halftone photographic plates, printed on differentpaper. Original printed wrappers, small chip to head of back wrap. In a verygood condition.

First edition.
€ 30 --

 

118 SPEAKMAN,Harold. Hilltops in Galilee. London, Methuen, 1925.

8vo. Pp. 259. Frontispiece, and seven other plates in colour, bound in.Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition.

First Britishedition. Colour illustrations from paintings by the author.
€ 28 --

 

119 STAAL,Arthur. Onder de gouden zon van hetmorgenland: Een reis door Egypte, Palestina en Syrië. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, 1941.

8vo. Pp. 261. Plus one single-page coloured drawing, one single-page map,and over 100 halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. With92 illustrations to the text. Hardcover, original decorated red cloth, giltstamped, spine gilt. All edges green. Good condition. (Scattered foxing,spotting.) Otherwise fine.

First edition. Witha nice set of original photographs taken by the author “with a Leica III, f=51/5, 1:2, without filters.”
€ 25 --

 

120 STALLARD,Mrs Arthur. Questors in Palestine: A TravelStory. Edinburgh, Moray, 1937.

8vo. Pp. vii, 376. Frontispiece. Plus 11 halftone plates bound in.Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine lettered in black. In finecondition. (Private ownership stamp to front flyleaf, blank). An excellentcopy.

First edition. Ahighly personal account of a journey to Palestine, with visits to Egypt,Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
€ 22 --

 

121 STURMANN,Manfred. Palästinensisches Tagebuch:Aufzeichnung einer Reise. Berlin, Brandus, 1937.

Crown 8vo. Pp. 57, (1) publisher’s ad. Hardcover, original red-orangeboards, lettered in black. In a very good condition. (Spine sunned, bit chippedat foot.) Overall an excellent copy.

First edition. Veryscarce.
€ 135 --

 

122 SUTHERLAND,Archibald. Palestine, the Glory of allLands: Travel-Studies of some Bible Places. Edinburgh, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1896.

Crown octavo. Pp. 383. Decorative initials. Printed on laid paper.Hardcover, original wine red cloth, decorated in gilt, bookplate, stamp, minorpencil underlining. In fine condition. A handsome copy.

First edition.“These chapters are called ‘Travel-Studies,’ to indicate that they combine theimpressions of travel with the results of study before and after travel (...)Instead of going in detail over the Holy Land, I have selected the chief placesin it, and a few which are closely connected with it, and then tried to seizeupon and bring into clear view the main interest of these places. Other partsof the country are spoken of in connection with them.” The author, Perth, 1896.
€ 170 --

 

123 SUYS,Arn., Prof. Keuller, Jan Stuijt. Gedenkboekvan den eersten Nederlandschen pelgrimstocht naar het Heilig Land. Amsterdam, Bekker, (1908).

Tall royal quarto. Pp. 189, (3). Prelims include half-title, title,evulgetur, full-page photo-plate portrait of the Archbishop of Utrecht, twopages with facsimile signatures of all participants, map of Israel with routeof journey, full-page photo-plate depicting the original design of the Standardcarried by the group during the journey. Plus 23 leaves of dark purple crepepaper bound in, each with a photo-plate mounted within gilt border, gilt caption,protected by tissue guard. A wide margin copy, printed on fine paper bearingtrade watermark. Hardcover, original cloth-backed plain boards with integratedprinted parchment paper dust-jacket (this in fair condition). In about finecondition. Excellent copy with fine interior, practically unused - leavespartly still unopened.

- - First edition. The story,recollections, and travelogue of 36 Dutch Christian pilgrims’ journey to theHoly Land in September 1905. Scarce. Not in the National Library of theNetherlands. No copies in OCLC nor KVK.
€ 325 --

 

124 TEMPLE,Richard. Palestine Illustrated. London, Allen, 1888.

4to. Pp. xx, 296. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Plus 31 chromolithographplates, 2 lithograph plates, 2 double-page lithograph maps (one of whichprinted with additional colour), and 2 single-page lithograph maps. Index.Hardcover, original maroon cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt, with bevellededges. Black endpapers. Overall good copy. (Upper inner hinge starting, somesignatures cracked, open; fore-edge of some leaves extending out of text blockand consequently bit frayed; offset of some plates onto tissue guards with verylight surface loss. All plates are now protected by sheets of acid-freeconservation paper.)

First edition.Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto frontpaste-down. In 1883, Temple travelled in the central- and western regions ofPalestine, making oil sketches and paintings of “many of the most sacred placesin the world.” The first map shows the route of his journey, and the 32 platesreproduced his paintings.
€ 120 --

 

125 THARAUD,Jérôme et Jean. La Palestine. Paris, Alpina, 1930.

Royal quarto. Pp. 159. Plus 8 full-page (helio)gravure plates, each with acaption printed on facing tissue guard. With numerous (helio)gravures of finequality (many full-page), printed in lightly-tinted ink, to the text. Printedon thick paper throughout. Original card wrappers with integral pictorialdust-jacket (rubbed along spine, small chips, stain at head). In a very goodcondition.

- - A numbered copy of the first,limited edition. A magnificent visual tour and a celebration of fine earlyphotography in Palestine. The fine technique of gravure printing(Kupfertiefdruck, Rakeltiefdruck), developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is oftenreferred to erratically as photogravure or heliogravure, terms which describeanother process. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, andreproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. Itwas not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliantand faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history ofprinting, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old handphotogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and thetechnique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards. Noted classicistDr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate.
€ 150 --

 

126 THE AUTHOR OF“THE CATACOMBS OF ROME,” etc. Mount Sinai, Petra, and the Desert, Described and Illustrated. London, T. Nelson, 1879.

Small 8vo. Pp. 166, (9) publisher’s catalogue. Plus engraved frontispiece,and 23 engraved plates. Hardcover, original illustrated crimson cloth, printed in black and gilt, spineillustrated, gilt. In a very good condition. (Spine ends and corners slightlybumped, flyleaves bit browned, worm trace to extreme fore-edge of one plate,marginal tear to fore-edge of one leaf neatly mended, very neat inscription,dated 1882, to front flyleaf.) Else, clean and bright. Excellent copy.

First edition. Witha lovely set of engraved views of the desert.
€ 60 --

 

127 THOMPSON,R. Campbell. A Pilgrim’s Scrip. London, John Lane The Bodley Head,1915.

8vo. Pp. xii, 346, (6) publisher’s ads (one of which printed in red andblack), 16 publisher’s catalogue. Frontispiece. Plus folding map bound at rear,and 15 halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Index. Hardcover,original brick red cloth lettered in gilt, spine gilt. Top edge red. Very goodcondition. (Scattered spotting, more pronounced to prelims; small date stamp toback paste-down.) Nice copy.

First edition. TheHugh Perronet Thompson’s copy, with his bookplate, a most impressive engravedarmorial printed in warm brown ink, pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 70 --

 

128 TRIETSCH,Davis. Bilder aus Palaestina[Palästina]. Berlin, Orient, ca. 1915.

Royal 8vo. Pp. 159, (6) publisher’s ads, partly illustrated, mostly of booksabout Palestine. With numerous photographic illustrations throughout.Hardcover, original metallic grey cloth, illustrated in blue. In a very goodcondition. (Very small tear to bottom edge of few consecutive leaves, well awayfrom text.) Else, a fine copy.

Second edition. Aremarkable collection of photographs, their power in their simplicity and lackof artistic intention, documenting all aspects of life in Palestine. They arethe result of numerous, prolonged trips to the Holy Land, driven by a keen interestand understanding which go deeper than that of the average pilgrim. Scarce.
€ 95 --

 

129 TRISTRAM,H. (Henry) B. (Baker). The Land of Israel: A Journal ofTravels in Palestine, Undertaken With Special Reference to its PhysicalCharacter. London, Society for PromotingChristian Knowledge, 1876.

Octavo. Pp. xx, 651. Plus Chromolithograph frontispiece, 3 otherchromolithograph plates, and 8 engraved plates. Engraved folding map of theHoly Land with routes hand-coloured; beautiful lithograph map of the Dead Seabound at end. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations to text. Half-title present,bearing a dedication dated 1879. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’sdecorative cloth, vignette view of Monastery of Carmel embossed in gilt onupper cover, flower embossed in gilt on spine; inner hinges cracked, spine-endsbit worn, small hole in cloth on back cover. Overall a very good, desirablecopy with rather fine interior, crisp maps and plates.

- - Third, revisededition. Reverend Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), English clergyman, Biblicalscholar, traveller, and ornithologist. He travelled extensively in the HolyLand and wrote also “The Natural History of the Bible” (1867), “The Daughtersof Syria” (1872), “Land of Moab” (1874), “Pathways of Palestine” (1882), “TheFauna and Flora of Palestine” (1884), “Eastern Customs in Bible Lands” (1894).In Hebrew, the bird Tristramit (Onycognathus tristramii), which he firstidentified in Palestine, is called after him.
€ 140 --

 

130 TWEEDIE,W. K. The Lakes and Rivers of theBible. London, T. Nelson, 1864.

Small octavo. Pp. viii, 9-288. Tinted lithograph frontispiece. Plus 14 othertinted lithographs on 9 plates, some full-page. Ornamental head- and tailpieces. Hardcover, bound in the original decorated blue pebble-grain cloth,gilt ornament and title lettering stamped within triple-rule gilt border, spineillustrated in gilt, all edges gilt, crack to inner hinge, some wear to spineends, front flyleaf incised. In a very good condition. Nice copy of a charmingbook with a lovely set of plates.

- - First edition.The chief interest of many of the events recorded in the Bible gathers roundits rivers and lakes, and this book attempts to link the explanation of theScripture with the description of the scenes which are visited. It draws onmany sources, namely Robinson’s “Researches in Palestine,” Lynch’s “Narrativeof the American Exploring Expedition to the Jordan and the Dead Sea,” Stanley’s“Sinai and Palestine,” and several others. Of particular value are the charmingplates, a set of delicate pen-and-ink lithographs known as “Nelson Prints”. Theimage of each plate is first printed from a lithograph stone in a purplish ink.The plate is then coloured in pale blue and fawn from separate relief woodblocks. Not in Tobler, who refers (225) only to Tweedie’s earlier work,“Jerusalem and its Environs” (1860).
€ 150 --

 

131 WASSER,Ben. Nederlandse pelgrims naar hetheilige land. Zutphen, Terra, 1983.

Crown quarto. Pp. 168. Illustrated, maps. Index. Hardcover, original clothgilt, with dust-jacket. In finecondition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

First edition.
€ 25 --

 

132 WASSER,Ben. Nederlandse pelgrims naar hetheilige land. Zutphen, Terra, 1983.

Crown quarto. Pp. 168. Illustrated, maps. Index. Hardcover, original clothgilt, with dust-jacket. In finecondition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

First edition.
€ 38 --

 

133 WEIL-BERLIN,Bruno, and Staatsrat a. D. Cohn-Dessau. Palästina [Palaestina]: Reiseberichte. Berlin, Philo, 1927.

Royal octavo. Pp. 32. Set in Gothic type. Original tan wrappers, lettered inblack, corner of back wrapper chipped, bit dog-eared. In a very good condition.

- - First edition,first printing, 1st to 2nd Thousand. Scarce. KVK lists just one copy, this inthe Complete Catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek. OCLC locates only 3 copiesworldwide (Stanford, Harvard, and Texas at Austin University Libraries).
€ 120 --

 

134 WIENER,Alfred. Juden und Araber in Palästina[Palaestina]. Zur Erkenntnis der jüngsten Vorgänge. Berlin, Philo, 1929.

Crown quarto. Pp. 54. Frontispiece photograph of the Wailing Wall. With 2illustrations to the text; footnotes. Original wrappers (bit dog-eared),printed with publisher’s ads. In a very good condition (light pencilunderlining and marking). Nice copy.

- - Offprint from“Morgen”, Volume 5, No. 5. Judisch Siedlung und Wirtschaft, 3. Uncommon. OCLClists 9 copies in the United States. KVK locates copies in Union Catalogue ofSwedish Libraries; British Union Catalog; Union Catalog of Canada; DetKongelige Bibliotek, Denmark; IDS Bale/Berne; and 3 copies in Germany.
€ 120 --

 

135 WIENER,Alfred. Kritische Reise durch Palästina[Palaestina]. Berlin, Philo, 1927.

Royal octavo. Pp. 156. With 13 maps and illustrations to the text;footnotes, appendices, indices. Original decorated cloth, embossed. In a verygood condition. (Bookplate, institutional stamp on blank verso of prelim,sporadic light underlining in pencil.) Else, a fine copy.

- - Second edition.
€ 45 --

 

136 WILSON,Charles W. (Editor). Assisted by the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers, Etc.[Richard Temple]. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai andEgypt, in Four Volumes, I-IV. [AND:] Palestine Illustrated. [FIVE VOLUMES]. London, Virtue, (1881-84).

Four volume set. Complete. Royal quarto (32 x 27 cm). Pp. x, 240 plus 10steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 12 steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 11steel-engraved plates and a double-page engraved map of Palestine, printed inbrown, with inset plan of Jerusalem; vi, 236 plus 9 steel-engraved plates and adouble-page engraved map of Egypt and Sinai, printed in brown. The total numberof 42 plates includes 4 different steel-engraved frontispieces and 4 different,large steel-engraved title vignettes. All plates are printed on heavy paperwith tissue-guards. The 4 volumes are illustrated with a total of 576 finewood-engraved illustrations, many of which are full-page, all with explanatorycaptions. Index to each volume. Title-pages printed in red and black.Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s richly decorated browncloth, gilt panelled and lettered, spines gilt, bevelled boards, all edgesgilt, yellow endpapers. In a very good condition (sporadic spotting,particularly to first and last leaves, light wear to spine ends, cloth on onevolume bit marked). Handsome set.

- - First edition,complete in four volumes. A second edition, in three volumes, was published inaround 1889. Other editions followed suit. Appleton of New York has published atwo-volume version, rather crowded in comparison with the original, and indeedone that could not match the exceptionally fine, two large folios of the Germanedition that was published in 1833 under the direction of Georg Ebers andHermann Guthe. Although it is Wilson who receives all the credit for thismonumental work, it is the contribution of the authors whose work he editedthat makes this four-volume opus of value. Distinguished Palestine explorerssuch as Canon Tristram, Charles Warren, M. Rogers, and notably Major ClaudeReignier Conder, R.E. (1848-1910), as well as several others created thenecessary balance between image and word. The superb steel engraved plates areprinted here with fine, crisp detail, subtlety and elegance. Noteworthy are theartists who produced them. Most of the original paintings were made by J. D.Woodward and Harry Fenn. Born in England in 1838, Fenn came at the age of 18 tothe United States where he has achieved great success as an illustrator ofbooks, was one of the founders of the American Watercolor Society, and has beenone of its exhibitors nearly every year since its organization. Some of hisbest work is contained in “Picturesque America,” “Picturesque Europe,” and“Picturesque Palestine”. A keen traveller, Fenn has travelled extensivelythrough the United States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and the SinaiPeninsula. Other artists include C. Werner and H. A. Harper. The engravingswere executed by numerous outstanding craftsmen, noteworthy among them are C.Bertrand and E. Brandard. The numerous lovely and lively wood-engravedillustrations complete this celebration of word and image. Noted classicist Dr.Henriëtte Boas’ set, with her bookplate pasted onto each volume. - - TO THIS WEADD A COMPLIMENTARY COPY: “Palestine Illustrated” by Sir Richard Temple.London, W. H. Allen, 1888. First edition. Quarto. Pp. xx, 296. Plus 32 finelyprinted chromolithograph plates with views of the Holy Land; 2 monochromaticlithographs; 4 maps, 2 of which are folding. Tissue guards present. Hardcover,bound in the original publisher's handsome blue cloth, gilt lettering andillustration on cover, black embossed illustration on spine. In a very goodcondition. Very clean and tight copy, with excellent plates. A complimentarycopy. [Total weight: 15 kg. Extra postage is required for all destinations].
€ 1250 --

 

137 WILSON,Charles W. Introduction by Zev Vilnay. Jerusalem: The Holy City. [AND:] The Land of Judea & theJerusalem Environs, Including the Mountains of Ephraim and the Dead Sea Region.[AND:] The Land of Galilee & the North, Including Samaria, Haifa, and theEsdraelon Valley. [AND:] Sinai & the South, Including a Short Descriptionof the Negev. [Picturesque Palestine]. 4 VOLUMES [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem, Ariel, 1976.

4 VOLUME SET. COMPLETE. FULL TITLE-LIST AS FOLLOWS: Jerusalem: The HolyCity. AND: The Land of Judea & the Jerusalem Environs, Including theMountains of Ephraim and the Dead Sea Region. AND: The Land of Galilee &the North, Including Samaria, Haifa, and the Esdraelon Valley. AND: Sinai &the South, Including a Short Description of the Negev. [Picturesque Palestine].- - Quarto. Pp. (4), 120; (6), 156; (6), 143; (8), 154. Frontispiece to eachvolume. Plus many full-page plates after original engravings. Profuselyillustrated throughout. Hardcover, original cloth with dust-jackets. Pictorialendpapers. Kept in a case, gilt. In a fresh, as-new condition. (Case veryslightly rubbed along edges.) A very fine, handsome set in excellent state ofpreservation, practically unused.

- - A facsimileedition of “Picturesque Palestine” which was published in 1881. Although it wasWilson who received all the credit for this monumental work, it was thecontribution of the authors whose work he edited that made this four-volumeopus of value. Distinguished Palestine explorers such as Canon Tristram,Charles Warren, M. Rogers, and notably Major Claude Reignier Conder, R.E.(1848-1910), as well as several others created the necessary balance betweenimage and word. The superb steel engraved plates are reproduced here with gooddetail. A very fine set such as this is now very scarce.
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138 WILSON,Charles W. Introduction by Zev Vilnay. Jerusalem: The Holy City. [AND:] The Land of Judea & theJerusalem Environs, Including the Mountains of Ephraim and the Dead Sea Region.[AND:] The Land of Galilee & the North, Including Samaria, Haifa, and theEsdraelon Valley. [AND:] Sinai & the South, Including a Short Descriptionof the Negev. [Picturesque Palestine]. 4 VOLUMES [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem, Ariel, 1976.

4 VOLUME SET. COMPLETE. FULL TITLE-LIST AS FOLLOWS: Jerusalem: The HolyCity. AND: The Land of Judea & the Jerusalem Environs, Including theMountains of Ephraim and the Dead Sea Region. AND: The Land of Galilee &the North, Including Samaria, Haifa, and the Esdraelon Valley. AND: Sinai &the South, Including a Short Description of the Negev. [Picturesque Palestine].- - Quarto. Pp. (4), 120; (6), 156; (6), 143; (8), 154. Frontispiece to eachvolume. Plus many full-page plates after original engravings. Profuselyillustrated throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original cloth with (good, nickedin places) dust-jackets. Pictorial endpapers. In a very good condition.

- - A facsimileedition of “Picturesque Palestine” which was published in 1881. Although it wasWilson who received all the credit for this monumental work, it was thecontribution of the authors whose work he edited that made this four-volumeopus of value. Distinguished Palestine explorers such as Canon Tristram,Charles Warren, M. Rogers, and notably Major Claude Reignier Conder, R.E.(1848-1910), as well as several others created the necessary balance betweenimage and word. The superb steel engraved plates are reproduced here with gooddetail.
€ 225 --

 

 

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