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Those Ancient Fields: Studies of Palestine and the Holy Land
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1 ATIQOT. JOURNAL OF THE ISRAEL DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. VOLUME II. JERUSALEM, State of Israel; Ministry of Education and Culture, 1959.
Quarto. Pp. 191. Plus xxiv plates with numerous photo-illustrations, printed on different paper; fold-out plates. Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers. In about fine condition (wraps bit soiled).
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
2 ATIQOT. JOURNAL OF THE ISRAEL DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. VOLUME III. JERUSALEM, State of Israel; Ministry of Education and Culture, 1961.Quarto. Pp. 198. Plus xxviii plates with numerous photo-illustrations, printed on different paper. Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
3 ABEL, F. -M. Histoire de la Palestine depuis la conquête d’Alexandre Jusqu’à l’invasion arabe. Volume I: De la conquête d’Alexandre Jusqu’à la guerre juive. Volume II. De la guerre juive a l’invasion arabe. Paris, Lecoffre, 1952.Two volumes. Tall 8vo. Pp. xv, 505 (1) genealogical table, plus 2 folding maps bound in; x, 406, plus one folding map bound at rear. This set is extra illustrated with 2 lithographed maps, originating in “L’Évangile”, printed on different paper in 2 colours, bound at end of Volume I. Original printed wrappers. Entirely unopened. In fine condition. (Small chip to foot of spine of Vol. II.) Crisp, unused copies. Excellent.
Études bibliques.
€ 125
4 ALBRIGHT, W. F. The Archaeology of Palestine: A Survey of the Ancient Peoples and Cultures of the Holy Land. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1951.12mo. Pp. 271. Map frontispiece. Plus 30 (helio)gravure plates bound in. With 63 illustrations to the text. Index. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. (Old signature.)
With a very nice set of gravures.
€ 15 --
5 [AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH]. THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST. VOLUME 38, Issues 1-4, 1975. [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem & Baghdad, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1975.Four issues (one is double-issue). Octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 124. Illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Complete run of the year 1975. ADDED: Volume 37, Issue no. 3, September 1974.
€ 25 --
6 [AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH]. THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST. VOLUME XXXI, Issues 1-4, 1968. [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem & Baghdad, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1968.Four issues. Octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 124. Illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Complete run of the year 1968.
€ 25 --
7 [AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH]. THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST. VOLUME XXXII, Issues 1-4, 1969. [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem & Baghdad, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1969.4 issues. Octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 116. Illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Complete run of the year 1969.
€ 25 --
8 [AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH]. THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST. VOLUME XXXIII, Issues 1-4, 1970. [COMPLETE]. Jerusalem & Baghdad, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1970.4 issues. Octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 132. Illustrated. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Complete run of the year 1970.
€ 25 --
9 [AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH]. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH. 14 ISSUES, 1968-1971. Jerusalem & Baghdad, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1968-71.14 issues. Octavo. illustrated. Original wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Contains the following issues: 189-194; 196-197; 199-204. February 1968 - December 1971.
€ 50 --
10 AMIRAN, David H. K., Arie Shachar, Israel Kimhi (Editorial Board). Atlas of Jerusalem. [AND:] Urban Geography of Jerusalem: A Companion Volume to the Atlas of Jerusalem. [COMPLETE SET]. Berlin New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1973.Two volumes. I. Map Volume: Imperial folio. Set of 53 large folding colour maps, loose as issued (bilingual). Table of Contents loosely inserted inside title folder. II. Text Volume: Quarto. Pp. 173. With numerous sketch maps, plans, diagrams, tables. Set in double columns. Original printed white stiff wrappers. Both volumes housed in original cloth-covered wooden box, printed and decorated in turquoise and black (cloth stained). Interior is in a fine, FRESH-NEW condition, with all 53 maps and text volume bright and crisp. Excellent set, practically unused.
- - First edition. Produced by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; The Israel Exploration Society; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography. A remarkable production.
€ 275 --
11 ARNAUD, E. La Palestine ancienne et moderne ou géographie historique et physique de la Terre Sainte. Paris, Berger Levrault, 1868.Octavo. Pp. xxiv, 600. Plus 3 chromolithograph maps on two sheets, loosely inserted. Title printed in red and black. Footnotes with terms set in Hebrew type and explained in the text; errata. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, old institutional bookplate and stamp, pencil underlining throughout, neat repair to verso of last leaf. In a very good condition.
First edition. The first part covers the geographical history of the Holy Land; the second part covers the physical geography; the third part is dedicated to the natural history; and the fourth part is a lovely “Nomenclature historique des villes et bourgardes de la Palestine,” with all the original place names set in Hebrew type and explained with references. Very scarce.
€ 350 --
12 ASSAF, Michael. Araber in Palästina [Palaestina]. N.p., Hitachduth Olej Germania, n.d.Royal octavo. Pp. 68. Footnotes. Original wrappers, bit worn.
Geschichte und Herkunft; Religion und Politik, Parteien und Presse, Wirtschaft und Geselleschaft; Kultur, Sitten und Gebräuche. Published by the (Jewish) Immigrants from Germany Union.
€ 29 --
13 AUERBACH, Elias. Wüste und gelobtes Land. Volume I: Geschichte Israels von den Anfängen bis zum Tode Salomos. Volume II: Geschichte Israels vom Tode Salomos bis Ezra und Nehemia. [FIRST EDITION]. Berlin, Schocken, 1932-36.Two volumes. Crown 4to. Pp. xii, 307, plus coloured relief map of Palestine and 17 halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in; 287, plus 15 halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in one suite at end, and 2 folding coloured lithographed maps loosely inserted in rear pocket, as issued. With illustrations and maps to the text in first volume. Hardcover, original black cloth, spine gilt, one volume with (good) dust-jacket. In fine condition. (Neat old signature to front flyleaf of first volume.) Excellent set, remarkably bright and fresh.
First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down of first volume. The maps are particularly handsome. The largest, Palästina, measures ca. 53 x 40 cm, is printed in numerous colours and has 3 insets. The second, ca. 42 x 42, is a view of the Assyrian and Babylonian kingdoms from 800 until 700 B.C. It is printed in 5 colours. Both maps are crisp, practically unused.
€ 165 --
14 AVI-YONAH, Michael (Editor). Geschichte des Heiligen Landes. Wiesbaden, Ebeling, 1975.Quarto. Pp. 327. Index. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous black&white and colour plates. Hardcover, original artificial crimson calf gilt, with dust-jacket (this about very good). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
Original Hebrew edition was published in 1969.
€ 22 --
15 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by F. de Bakker. [The Holy Land] De VIIde Landkaart verbeeldende de Stad Jerusalem beneven de daar omgelegen Bergen en Dalen, Fonteinen, Waterleidingen, Lusthoven enz. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, (1750).Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 510 mm. Plate mark ca. 350 x 445 mm. Image size ca. 325 x 410 mm. Incorporates a detailed Plan of the City of Jerusalem within a general, delicately illustrated topographical view of its environs. Plain cartouche encloses title and colophon. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition. (Single outer corner finger-soiled, well away from image and plate mark.)
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 225 --
16 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De IIIde Landkaart ’t Land Kanaan en Gilead onder de XII Stammen Israëls Verdeelt. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1758.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 510 mm. Plate mark ca. 360 x 445 mm. Image size ca. 345 x 425 mm. With Inset Map, “Der Verdeelinge van Israels Land”, measuring ca. 150 x 110 mm, presented by two, finely engraved cherubs. Engraved illustration, depicting Joshua’s men about to embark on the entry into the Promised Land. Illustrated cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In a very fine condition.
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 325 --
17 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De Iste Landkaart of Afbeelding van de Natuurlyke Gesteldheid des Lands Kanaan, waar in de Zeën, rivieren, beeken gelyk ook de bergen, dalen, en vlakten, de woestynen enz. dezes lands, die in de H. Schrift genoemt zyn, worden aangewezen. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1757.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 510 mm. Plate mark ca. 365 x 445 mm. Image size ca. 340 x 420 mm. Engraved illustration at lower right corner. Handsome illustrated cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Scale within illustrated frame. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition. (A touch of browning to centrefold.)
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 275 --
18 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De Vde Landkaart vertoonende De Beide Ryken Juda en Israël die, na Salomo’s dood zich van elkander afgescheurt hebben; benevens de Overheerde Landen, aan elk der beiden behoorende: afgebeeld. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1758.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 520 mm. Plate mark ca. 350 x 450 mm. Image size ca. 340 x 420 mm. Handsome illustrated cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Engraved battlefield scene at lower right corner. Scale within illustrated frame. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition. (Centrefold.)
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 200 --
19 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De VIde Landkaarte vertoonende Het Joodsche Land aan de
heerschappy der Roomsche keisers onderworpen en bestierd door hunne Landvoogden. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1761.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 515 mm. Plate mark ca. 360 x 440 mm. Image size ca. 350 x 420 mm. Handsome ornate cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Handsome engraved illustration at lower right corner. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition. (Centrefold.)
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 200 --
20 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De Xde Landkaart vertonende De van ouds Bekende Waereld beneven derzelver Verdeelinge onder Noachs
Nakomelingen. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1764.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 510 mm. Plate mark ca. 360 x 455. Image size ca. 340 x 420 mm. With Inset Map of Africa. Engraved illustration depicting the Biblical episode of the Tower of Babylon. Handsome ornate cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state.
€ 175 --
21 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] De XIIde Landkaart vertoonende De Landen der Assyrische, Babylonische, Persische, Grieksche en daarna
Romeinsche Heerschappy, ter Ophelderinge der Profetien en Geschiedenissen
der H. Schrift. [Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc.] [ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAP]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1768.Original single-sheet map in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Overall size ca. 400 x 800 mm, with 2 flapped wings. Image size, within plate mark, ca. 340 x 740 mm. Handsome ornate cartouche encloses engraved title and colophon. Fine, strong impression on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, mostly with added colouration for purely decorative purpose, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state. They are practically unavailable in their original, unaltered, uncoloured state.
€ 275 --
22 BACHIENE, Willem Albert. Engraved by O. Lindeman. [The Holy Land] Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, etc., etc. [SIX ORIGINAL 18th CENTURY COPPERPLATE MAPS]. Utrecht, Paddenburg, 1757-67.Lot of 6 original single-sheet maps in copperplate engraving of fine quality. Fine, strong impressions on heavy handmade paper with ample margins all round. First, original state, unaltered by later colouration. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced, buffered archival paper. In fine condition. - - Full individual descriptions are available on request.
- - First edition. Willem Albert Bachiene (1712-1783), Dutch clergyman, later a professor of geography and astronomy at the Illustere School, Maastricht. Well known cartographer. The 3-volume “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land, alsmede andere landen in de H. Schrift voorkomende,” is considered among his most important works. It was published in Utrecht between 1763-1768, and included a suite of 12 fine geographical maps of the Holy Land and its neighbouring lands which Bachiene made during a period of ten years, the first in as early as 1758. The map offered herewith is taken from this suite. Other important cartographic works of the Holy Land by Bachiene were included in the so-called “Jehovah Bible” i.e. “De Gansche H. Schrift, Vervattende alle de regelmatige Boeken des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, (...) Gods Gedenk-Naam Jehovah onvertaald gehouden,” published in 1762 by N. Goetzee of Gorinchem, shortly before the present map first appeared in book form. Whereas other single-sheet maps by Bachiene are in relative abundance, the works from “Heilige geographie of aardrijkskundige beschryving van het Joodsche land” are very scarce, seldom found in any state, practically unavailable in their original, uncoloured state. - - Note regarding this lot: Each of the 6 maps in this lot is offered also separately.
€ 1150 --
23 BARTHOLOMEW JOHN. [THE HOLY LAND] GENERAL MAP OF PALESTINE, Illustrating Old and New Testament History According to Palestine Exploration Survey. (Caption Title). [MAP CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. London, The Edinburgh Geographical Institute & John Murray, 1917.Original single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 350mm, folded as issued. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
- - Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine. With Bible and ancient names, as well as with modern names. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute was a foremost cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century.
€ 30 --
24 BAUER, Leonard. Volksleben im Lande der Bibel. Leipzig, Wallmann, 1903.Octavo. Pp. (vi), 312. Plus 30 halftone photographic plates printed on different paper bound in. With numerous illustrations to the text. Footnotes, chronology, indices. Decorative initials. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, half cloth and foliate paper-covered boards, title label to spine. Excellent copy in fine condition.
- - First edition. The way the book is illustrated is impressive. The photographs depict various aspects of life and work in “the land of the Bible”. They are ranging from landscapes and general views, identified by place name, through documentation of public events, a pilgrimage or two, to pictures of daily life. People working, cultivating the fields, harvesting, gathering, tending the herds; individually and in groups. There are closer pictures of utensils, cookery, housing. There are several portraits, individual and group, mainly of archetypes, as well as of people socializing. Some of the landscapes are very picturesque; the closer views are clearly intended to be used as studies in anthropology and culture, and to allow clear identification. The excellent drawings often illustrate in minute detail elements shown in the photographic plates, enhancing clarity. Includes a charming chapter on Arabic music, with musical notes, and several lyrics spelled phonetically.
€ 75 --
25 BAUER, Leonhard. Das Palästinische Arabisch: Die Dialekte des Städters und des Fellachen. Grammatik, Übungen und Chrestomathie. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1926.Royal 8vo. Pp. 264. Footnotes, index. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. Excellent copy.
- - Fourth edition. Scarce.
€ 75 --
26 BENTWICH, Norman. Palestine. London, Ernest Benn, 1934.8vo. Pp. 302. With one single-page map. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, original green cloth, spine gilt with small shelf number in neat hand. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. Bentwich, formerly Attroney-General in Palestine, gives here a Jewish point of view on the political situation in Palestine. An essay by himself, “Problem of Palestine: An Appeal for Co-operation,” which appeared in Great Britain and the East, July 30, 1936, bearing his portrait, is neatly preserved inside an envelope, mounted to back paste-down.
€ 40 --
27 BENTWICH, Norman. A Wanderer in the Promised Land. London, Soncino, 1932.8vo. Pp. x, 263. With full-page map. Footnotes, bibliography, chronological table, index. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine gilt. In a very good condition. (Cloth somewhat thumbed along edges and spine.) Internally a fine copy.
First edition. Bentwich’s work is of the nature of historical geography, touching upon the evolution of the Jewish people at various periods. Dealing with the country in its historical aspects, he dedicates one part of the book to Jerusalem, and one to describe parts of Palestine. The third part is concerned with the surrounding lands in their relation with Palestine and the Bible.
€ 40 --
28 BLANCKENHORN, Max. Kurzer Abriss der Geologie Palästinas [Palaestinas]. Begleitworte zu einer neuen geologischen Karte von Palästina. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1912.Octavo. Pp. 28. Plus large, folding lithographed map, printed on heavy paper in about 15 colours; and a folding chart, both bound at rear. Footnotes. Original printed wrappers, a little edge worn. In a very good condition (foxing).
- - Offprint from “Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins”, 1919, pp. 113-139. The map, by Professor Blanckenhorn, measures 56 x 42 cm. It has 2 insets: one showing the region south to the Dead Sea, the second is a plan of the City of Jerusalem. Published by the Geogr. Anstalt von Wagner & Dress, Leipzig, in 1912. A lovely map in fine condition. Scarce. OCLC does not locate a single copy worldwide. KVK locates just 4 copies, in Union Catalog Hesse; Union Catalog Bavaria; British Union Catalog; ZB Zurich. No copy in the Complete Catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
€ 220 --
29 BLISS, Frederick Jones. Illustrated by Archibald Campbell Dickie. Excavations at Jerusalem, 1894-1897. London, Palestine Exploration Fund, 1898.8vo. Pp. xvi, 374. Frontispiece. Plus 24 lithographed plates, almost all extending or folding, the last printed in 2 colours, and one colour lithograph, all printed on different paper and signed in facsimile by Bliss and Dickie, bound in. Three large folding plans, printed in 2 colours, in rear pocket (short splits to folds). With text illustrations, some of which full-page, index. Hardcover, original red buckram, lettered in gilt, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Upper inner hinge bit cracked but mended firm; edges dusty; pencil marking and notations throughout, rather heavily to prelims and few leaves at the end, where Hebrew script in neat student hand is also entered.) That said, a good, handsome copy with a nice set of plates in neat condition.
First edition. Scarce.
€ 175 --
30 BÖHL, F. M. Th. Kanaän, vóór den intocht der Israëlieten, volgens Egyptische en Babylonische bronnen. Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1913.Royal octavo. Pp. 40. Notes. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (light edge wear to wraps).
- - Rede bij de aanvaarding van het hoogleeraarsambt aan de rijks-universiteit te Groningen, 1 maart 1913.
€ 45 --
31 BONNE, Alfred. Palästina [Palaestina]: Land und Wirtschaft. Leipzig, Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung, 1932.Royal octavo. Pp. 287. Plus 60 photo-illustrations printed on fine paper bound-in, one of which is an excellent fold-out panoramic view of the Bay of Haifa. Plus three full-page maps and one full-page diagram. Numerous tables to the text, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original light-brown cloth with black lettering. In a very good condition. (Pencil and colour pencil underlining.) Else an excellent copy.
This is the first edition of Bonne’s work, differing from the 3rd by the inclusion of fine photographic material about work in early Zionist Israel.
€ 35 --
32 BONNE, Alfred. Palästina [Palaestina]: Land und Wirtschaft. Neue, völlig umgearbeitete Auflage: Das aktüellste Werk über Palästina. Berlin, Singer, 1935.8vo. Pp. 329, (2) publisher’s ads. Plus four full-page maps and diagrams. Numerous tables to the text. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Original card wrappers with integral dust-jacket, printed in light-blue and black. In overall very good condition; interior in fine condition.
Third edition. Aims to bring an up-to-date picture of the current social and economic situation in Zionist Palestine at the time. It is rather uncommon to find this title in the original, typographically experimental binding, nicely preserved.
€ 35 --
33 BRÄUDO, Ephraim (Editor). Jisrael, Volk und Land: Jüdische Anthologie. Berlin, Kedem, 1935.8vo. Pp. xvi, 402. Footnotes, glossary. Hardcover, original buckram, lettered in blue. Very good condition. (Front endpapers bit marked.) Else, a fine, clean copy.
First edition. Published for “Hechaluz”. Includes, among many other, texts by Herzl, Lilienblum, Pinsker, Ben-Maimon, Halevi, Kalisker, Nordau, Bialik, Kaznelson, Buber, Ben-Gurion.
€ 30 --
34 CASTLE, Wilfrid T. F. Syrian Pageant. The History of Syria and Palestine, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1945: A Background to Religion, Politics, and Literature. London, Hutchinson, n.d.Royal 8vo. Pp. 184. Frontispiece map. Plus 16 full-page halftone plates. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, original light blue cloth. (Prelims browned, top of spine mended, some rubbing to cloth on lower board.) Else nice, clean copy.
€ 20 --
35 CHAMPAGNY, Comte Franz de. Rome et la Judée. Au temps de la chute de Néron (ans 66-67 après Jésus-Christ). Paris, Lecoffre, 1858.Octavo. Pp. viii, 541. Plus engraved frontispiece map. Footnotes, appendix. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt with a Shelf label at foot, all edges marbled. In fine condition (old institutional stamp and label). A fine, crisp copy.
- - First edition.
€ 60 --
36 (COMMITTEE OF THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND). OUR WORK IN PALESTINE: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS SENT OUT TO THE HOLY LAND, by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Since the Establishment of the Fund in 1865. London, Bentley, 1875.Crown 8vo. Pp. iv, (ii), 344. Plus engraved frontispiece, ten lithographed maps and plans, (2 of which folding), 5 engraved plates, one facsimile printed in tinted ink. With numerous engraved illustrations to the text. Engraved head-piece to each chapter, depicting archaeological artifacts. Appendix, bibliography. Letterpress device to title. Hardcover, original cherry red cloth, lettered in black, spine decorated in gilt. In a very good condition. (Upper inner hinge slightly cracked.) Fine, handsome copy.
First edition. The accounts of the expeditions to Palestine of Wilson and Anderson, and of the works of Warren, Palmer, and Drake are collected here for the first time.
€ 80 --
37 CONWAY, Martin. Palestine and Morocco: Lands of the Overlap. London, Edward Arnold, 1923.Octavo. Pp. viii, 296, 20 publisher’s catalogue. Plus halftone frontispiece and 7 other plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Index. Hardcover, original green cloth, spine gilt with small shelf number in neat hand. Trimmed rough. In a very good condition. (Upper inner hinge neatly mended, endpapers bit yellowed.) Else fine, bright copy.
First edition. A study of the similarities between the two countries, and a travel account from Marrakesh, through Cairo, to Jerusalem and Palestine. With a review of the Arab and Jews relations, the Zionist enterprise, and the political situation.
€ 95 --
38 CROWFOOT, Grace M., and Louise Baldensperger. From Cedar to Hyssop: A Study in the Folklore of Plants in Palestine. London, Sheldon Press, 1932.Octavo. Pp. viii, 196. With 14 halftone photographic plates, and 62 line-drawn, full-page, botanical illustrations. With translation of Arabic alphabet, 2 appendices, index of plant names, footnotes. Hardcover, original pale blue cloth. Very good condition (spine faded, cloth bit marked). Frontispiece excised.
First edition. This copy bears old notes on botanical names, translating them in a very neat student hand into Hebrew, on verso of title-page. A fascinating book, full of love and admiration to the wild plants of the Holy Land, their history, folk lore, beauty, and healing powers.
€ 150 --
39 CROWFOOT, J. W., and G. M. Fitzgerald. Palestine Exploration Fund: Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley, Jerusalem 1927. London, Palestine Exploration Fund, 1929.Crown quarto. Pp. x, (ii), 135, (4) publisher’s catalogue. Plus collotype frontispiece, 10 collotype plates with 17 illustrations, 12 lithograph plates with numerous line-drawn illustrations, folding coloured plan bound at end. With 21 halftone photographic illustrations to the text. Legends, index. Hardcover, original quarter cloth and grey paper-covered boards, lettered in black, spine gilt. In a very good condition (corners slightly bumped). Else, a fine copy.
First edition. Annual V of the Palestine Exploration Fund. With outstanding illustrations.
€ 80 --
40 CUST, Lionel. Illustrated by Major Benton Fletcher. Jerusalem: A Historical Sketch. London, Black, 1924.8vo. Pp. x, 222, (2) publisher’s ads. Plus frontispiece, plan, and 23 illustrated plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Index. Hardcover, original illustrated khaki cloth, printed in brown and red. Fine condition. (Flyleaves bit tanned.) Excellent copy.
First edition. With a lovely collection of pencil, pen, and ink views of Jerusalem and environs.
€ 30 --
41 DÖLLER, Johannes. Geographische und ethnographische Studien zum III. und IV. Buche der Könige. A Volume in the Theologische Studien der Leo-Gesellschaft Series. Wien, Mayer, 1904.8vo. Pp. Xl, 356. Plus folding coloured lithographed map bound at rear. With numerous words in Hebrew in the text. Extended bibliography, footnotes, index. Hardcover, half cloth and marbled boards with original cover and spine laid down. Very good condition. (Minor marginal marking to the bibliography section, one leaf with minor marginal ink stain, small clean tear to fold of map; spine bit rubbed.)
First edition. The beautiful map of Palestine is printed in black, blue, and light orange. It includes a 1:20,000 scale insert of Jerusalem with a legend, and two 1:400,000 scale inserts, one of the Judean Highland, the second of the region between Nazareth and Tiberias.
€ 60 --
42 DUSSAUD, René. Les découvertes de Ras Shamra (Ugarit) et l’Ancien Testament. Paris, Geuthner, 1937.Crown 4to. Pp. 128. With numerous illustrations to the text; footnotes, index. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Good condition. (Wraps rather dust-soiled, shelf label to cover with remains of another removed, institutional stamps and marks to half-title.) Internally very good, clean, partly unopened.
First edition.
€ 35 --
43 EBERS, Georg, and Hermann Guthe. Palästina in Bild und Wort. Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen. Nach dem Englischen herausgegeben, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1883-84.Two volumes. Folio (40 x 32cm). Complete, with all 37 plates present. Volume I: Pp. viii, 520, plus steel engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, steel engraved title-page, double-page colour lithograph map of Palestine, double-page colour lithograph plan of Jerusalem, and 19 fine steel engraved plates with facing tissue guards. Volume II: Pp. vi, 474, plus steel engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, steel engraved title-page, double-page colour lithograph map of the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt, and 16 fine steel engraved plates with facing tissue guards. Both title-pages printed in red and black, each with engraved ornamental device. Both volumes profusely illustrated with over 500 fine wood-engraved, full-page plates, text illustrations, vignettes, and ornaments. With decorative initials, ornamental tail-pieces. Notes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with four gilt-ruled raised band, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, numbered in fourth, gilt-tooled head and foot, small round shelf labels (rubbed), top edge gilt, white silken endpapers, cloth hinges; board edges of vol. I bit chafed, lower corner of few leaves, mostly prelims, dampmarked, fore-edge of first text leaves in both volumes bit frayed. In about fine condition. A very well bound, nicely preserved set.
- - First German edition. The superb steel engraved plates are printed here with fine, crisp detail, great subtlety and elegance. Very large, each is printed within a plate-mark on heavy, handmade paper, tipped-in facing a tissue guard. Noteworthy are the artists who produced this work. 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 to the United States where he has achieved great success as an illustrator of books, was one of the founders of the American Watercolor Society, and has been one of its exhibitors nearly every year since its organization. Some of his best work is contained in “Picturesque America,” “Picturesque Europe,” and “Picturesque Palestine,” on which the present German edition is based. A keen traveller, Fenn has travelled extensively through the United States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and the Sinai Peninsula. Other artists include C. Werner and H. A. Harper. The engravings were executed by numerous outstanding craftsmen, noteworthy among them are C. Bertrand and E. Brandard, and Alfred Krausse. The plates come from at least three different presses, these of A. Schuler, J. Niederbühl, and W. Thielicke are the most prominent. The result is impressive, and the quality of the prints surpasses that of the English edition. The numerous lovely and lively wood-engraved illustrations complete this celebration of word and image. Old institutional bookplate and markings. A handsome set. [Note: total weight over 10 kg].
€ 765 --
44 EBERS, Georg, and Hermann Guthe. Palästina in Bild und Wort. Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen. Nach dem Englischen herausgegeben, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Stuttgart & Leipzig, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (vormals Eduard Hallberger), 1882.Two volumes. Folio. Volume I: Pp. viii, 520. Plus steel-engraved plate as frontispiece, with facing tissue guard, a double-page colour lithograph map of Palestine, and a double-page colour lithograph plan of Jerusalem. Volume II: Pp. vi, 474. Plus steel engraved plate as frontispiece, with facing tissue guard, and a double-page colour lithograph map of the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt. Both title-pages printed in red and black, each with engraved ornamental device. Both volumes profusely illustrated with over 500 fine wood-engravings many of which are full-page, text illustrations, vignettes, and ornaments. With decorative initials, ornamental tail-pieces. Notes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s decorated cloth, printed in gilt and black. Cloth is dampstained, worn, restored in part; last few leaves marginally soiled, vol. II lacks last free endpaper (blank). Interiors are in general very good condition, overall neat, with crisp maps.
- - First German edition.
€ 280 --
45 ETTEN, F. J. P. van. Palestina: Het land der twaalf stammen. Het Land geheiligd door J. C. Volumes I-II. Utrecht, P. W. van de Weijer, 1884-86.Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 460, (2), (1) publisher’s ad. Plus 3 lithographed maps, two of which folding, the larger printed in two colours; 760, (2), xxxii (index). Plus 3 folding lithographed maps. Tables, footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spines gilt with neat shelf labels. All edges marbled. In a very good condition (old institutional stamps, some spotting, small tears to folds of maps neatly repaired; title leaf of vol. I strengthened along gutter with paper but a bit frayed). Overall very good, complete set in handsome binding.
- - First edition.
€ 375 --
46 EULENBERG, Herbert. Palästina [Palaestina]: Eine Reise ins Gelobte Land. Berlin, Rembrandt, ca. 1910.8vo. Pp. 209, (2) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece. Plus 32 halftone illustrations on numerous plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Hardcover, original off-white cloth, lettered in green. Top edge green. In a very good condition. Save for minor spotting to cloth, frontispiece, and a leaf or two, an excellent copy.
First edition. The collection of historical photographs is nice indeed and seldom reproduced elsewhere.
€ 40 --
47 EYCKELER, Jean. De heilige plaatsen in Palestina. Meppel, J. A. Boom, 1950.Quarto. Pp. 48. With 24 full-page, tinted screen gravure plates. Original pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.
- - First edition. With tintedviews of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Jericho, Jordan River, Mount of Olives, Bethany, Mountain Tabor, and other views, as well as several church interiors. The fine technique of gravure printing, developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is often referred to erratically as photogravure, heliogravure, Kupfertiefdruck, or Rakeltiefdruck, terms which refer to another technique. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, and reproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. It was not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliant and faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history of printing, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old hand photogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and the technique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards.
€ 40 --
48 FISCHER, Clarence, S. The Excavation of Armageddon. [Oriental Institute Communications]. Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1929.Crown 4to. Pp. xv, 78. With 53 halftone and line-drawn maps and illustrations, some full- or double-page, in the text, bound- or tipped in. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (small, faint dampstain to upper wrap; a chip or two to spine) Else a bright, crisp copy.
First edition.
€ 80 --
49 FLUGI VAN ASPERMONT, Jhr. C. H. C. De Johanniter-Orde in het Heilige Land (1100-1292). Assen, Van Gorcum, 1957.Royal 8vo. Pp. 160. Plus folding map loosely inserted at rear as issued, and a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Footnotes. Original card wrappers with integral dust-jacket. Very good condition. (Light dampstain to top margin of 2 leaves.) Nice copy.
First edition.
€ 20 --
50 FONCK, Leopold. Streifzüge durch die biblische Flora. Biblische Studien Vol. 5, Part 1. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1900.8vo. Pp. xiv, 167. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, cloth-backed plain paper-covered boards. Very good condition. (Neat contemporary signature to front flyleaf next to erased one.) Neat copy.
First edition.
€ 45 --
51 FROHNMEYER, Immanuel. Biblische Geographie. Für Schulen und Familien. Calw & Stuttgart, Vereinsbuchhandlung, 1883.Small 8vo. Pp. viii, 356. Footnotes, appendix, index. Plus folding colour lithograph map of Palestine with two insets, bound at rear as issued (small tear to fold, others neatly mended.) Illustrated throughout with numerous wood engravings, many of which are full-page, with views and maps. Endpapers printed with publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, original decorated red cloth, illustration gilt-stamped within decorative borders with four corner devices stamped in gilt, spine gilt, lower cover blind stamped. In a very good condition. (Inner hinges bit cracked.)
Tenth, revised edition, with a new foreword by the author. Lovingly illustrated. Handsome armorial bookplate to front paste-down.
€ 35 --
52 GOTTGETREU, Erich. Das Land der Söhne: Palästina [Palaestina] nahe gerückt. Wien, Lanyi, 1934.Crown octavo. Pp. 206. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s sand cloth, lettered in red. Good copy.
First edition.
€ 20 --
53 GRAVES, Philip. Palestine, the Land of Three Faiths. London, Jonathan Cape, 1923.Royal 8vo. Pp. 286. Frontispiece map. Plus 16 full-page halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Footnotes, appendices. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with (chipped and frayed, though scarce in any state) dust-jacket. Very good. (Browning to prelims, odd spotting, bit dusty.)
First edition. Graves was correspondent for The Times in Constantinople, staff officer during the First World War, and special correspondent in Palestine.
€ 62 --
54 GROOT, Johannes, de. Palestijnsche masseben (opgerichte steenen): Academisch proefschrift... Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1913.Royal 8vo. Pp. 95. Plus a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. With text illustrations. Incorporating words set in Hebrew. Footnotes. Hardcover, original blue cloth, double-ruled gilt, gilt-stamped lettering, with bevelled edges. Patterned endpapers. In a very good condition. (Front flyleaf clipped; upper cover slightly marked.)
- - First edition. Academic thesis. ADDED: A four-page list of thesis points, loosely inserted.
€ 60 --
55 GROUSSET, René. Histoire des Croisades et du Royaume franc de Jérusalem. Volume I: L’anarchie musulmane et la monarchie franque. Volume II: Monarchie franque et monarchie musulmane. L’Équilibre. Volume III: La monarchie musulmane et l’anarchie franque. [THREE VOLUMES]. Paris, Plon, 1934-36.3 volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. lxii, 698, plus 9 maps printed on two large folding sheets of different paper, bound at end; iii, 920, plus several (full-page) maps; xxxiv, 874, plus several genealogical charts printed on two large folding sheets of different paper, bound at end, several (full-page) maps to the text. Footnotes, appendices other genealogical tables, index. Original paper wrappers, printed in red and black. In a very good condition. (Wraps bit marked; stamps and shelf labels.) Overall excellent set; very fresh interior, with all folding material crisp, practically unused.
First edition.
€ 220 --
56 GUEDALLA, Philip. Napoleon and Palestine. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1925.Small octavo. Pp. 64. Two pages of publisher’s catalogue. Fine woodcut device to half-title, repeated on last leaf. Original orange card wrappers, lettered in black, spine bit rubbed. In about fine condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. An “Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture” delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College, May 25, 1925. With a foreword by Israel Zangwill and an afterword by David Lloyd George.
€ 95 --
57 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Das heutige Palästina. [LARGE SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP]. [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original, large single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 560 x 440 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round; fold at centre as issued. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:700000. With 2 insets: I. Das Hochland von Judäa, scale 1:400000; II. Das heutige Jerusalem, scale 1:20000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 32 --
58 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Das Persische Reich um 500 vor Christi (650 vor Chr.). [COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP] [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 280 x 440 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:10000000. With 3 insets: I. Jerusalem mit dem Neubau der Ringmauer durch Nehemia, scale 1:14000; II. Das Gebiet der jüdischen Religiongemeinde um 430 vor Chr., scale 1:700000; III. Das judäische Gebiet unter dem persischen Stadthalter Nehemia, scale 1:700000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
59 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Die Mittelmeerländer im 1. Jahth. nach Christi. [LARGE SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP]. [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original, large single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 560 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round; fold at centre as issued. In about fine condition (2 short marginal splits, not affecting image, expertly mended without paper or tape).
First edition. Scale 1:10000000. With 6 insets: I. Die Paulusbucht von Malta, scale 1:250000; II. Palästina nach 70 nach Chr., scale 1:13000000; III. Jerusalems Belagerung durch die Römer, scale 1:25000; IV. Alexandria im 1. Jahre. nach Chr., scale 1:75000; V. Athen zur Zeit des Paulus, scale 1:30000; VI. Rom zur Zeit Neros, scale 1:40000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 30 --
60 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Die Reiche der Seleuciden und Ptolemär nach dem Tode Antiochus III. AND: Palästina zur Zeit der Makkabäer. AND: Palästina zur Zeit der Pompeius. [THREE MAPS ON A SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH]. [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.3 maps on original single-sheet colour lithograph of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. One map ca. 185 x 240 mm; each of the remaining two ca. 185 x 120 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scales 1:14000000; 1:2100000; 1:2100000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
61 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina im 7. Jahrh. vor Christi (650 vor Chr.). [COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP] [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:400000. With 2 insets: I. Palästina um 732 vor Chr., scale 1:2800000; II. Jerusalem im 7. Jahrh. vor Chr., scale 1:14000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
62 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina nach dem Tode Herodes des Großen. AND: Palästina unter Agrippa I. AND: Palästina unter römischen Procuratoren. AND: Palästina zur Zeit des Aufstandes. [FOUR MAPS ON A SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.4 maps on original single-sheet colour lithograph of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. Each map ca. 185 x 120 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Scale 1:2100000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
63 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina um 1000-750 vor Christi. [LARGE SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original, large single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 560 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round; fold at centre. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:7000000. With 6 insets: I. Umgebung von Ninive, scale 1:500000; II. Ruinenfeld von Ninive, scale 1:100000; III. Das alte Tyrus, scale 1:40000; IV. Umgebung von Babylon, scale 1:500000; V. Ruinenfeld von Babylon, scale 1:100000; VI. Das alte Babylon, scale 1:100000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 32 --
64 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina zur Zeit Christi. [LARGE SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original, large single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 560 x 440 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round; fold at centre as issued. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:700000. With 2 insets: I. Weitere Umgebung des heutigen Jerusalem, scale 1:150000; II. Jerusalem vor der Zerstörung im Jahre 70 nach Chr., scale 1:14000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 32 --
65 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina zur Zeit Marcus Antonius. AND: Palästina zur Zeit der Herodes des Großen. AND: Galiläa. [THREE MAPS ON A SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH]. [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.3 maps on original single-sheet colour lithograph of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. One map ca. 185 x 240 mm; each of the remaining two ca. 185 x 120 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scales 1:2100000; 1:2100000; 1:466660. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
66 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Palästina zur Zeit Sauls. [COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP] [CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:400000. With inset: Die Reiche Isboseths und Davids, scale 1:2800000; legend. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.
€ 22 --
67 GUTHE, H. [After the cartographic works of Richard Kiepert; G. Schumacher; R. E. Brünnow; Al. Musil; Hans Fischer]. [Palestine - The Holy Land] Syrien und Ägypten um 1400-1250 vor Christi. [SINGLE-SHEET COLOUR LITHOGRAPH MAP]. Leipzig, Geographische Anstalt Wagner & Debes, 1911.Original single-sheet colour lithograph map of fine quality. Overall size 440 x 280 mm. Fine impression on heavy paper with ample margins all round. In fine condition.
First edition. Scale 1:4200000. With 2 insets: I. Das östliche Nildelta, scale 1:1000000; II. Der Nil von Syene bis Meroë, scale 1:10000000. Excellent cartographic representation of ancient Palestine, the Holy Land, and neighbouring Middle East. The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was the foremost German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, it enjoyed a continuous stream of orders from the famous cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 the son, Heinrich Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes. select a SoldWhen... 0
68 GUTHE, Hermann. Palästina [Palaestina]. [Land und Leute]. Bielefeld, Velhagen & Klasing, 1908.Crown 4to. Pp. 168. Plus double-page bird’s-eye view of Jerusalem bound in, folding coloured lithograph map bound at rear. With 142 halftone photographic illustrations, some of which are full-page; index, list of illustrations. Set in Gothic type. Original limp boards in contrasting colours of green and purple, embossed in gilt. Very good condition. (Signature neatly erased from half-title; inside of front cover is largely spotted, some spotting to verso and fold of map; some leaves bit creased.) Nice copy.
First edition. Volume number 21 in the “Land und Leute: Monographien zur Erdkunde” Series. Contains a very impressive collection of historical photographs, covering many aspects of life in Palestine at the time. With numerous portraits of inhabitants, landscape views, architecture, archaeological excavations and artifacts, holy sites, native life, some posed images in the photographer studio, fauna and flora, etc. Includes a nicely produced map of Palestine with an insert of the Judean Highland.
€ 70 --
69 HAAS, Jacob de. History of Palestine: The Last Two Thousand Years. [Autograph Copy]. New York, Macmillan, 1934.Octavo. Pp. xxvii, 523. Notes, index. Hardcover, original navy blue cloth, spine gilt, old institutional stamp to first flyleaf. Partly still unopened. Excellent copy save for some light wear to spine-ends.
- - First edition. Autograph copy, signed by the author, June 1934. De Haas manages here to compress the last two thousand years of Palestine history within the limits of a single volume.
€ 65 --
70 HAMELSVELD, Ysbrand van. Aardrykskunde [Aardrijkskunde] des Bybels. Tweede deel. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1790.Octavo. Pp. 410. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with gilt morocco lettering-piece, boards rubbed. In good condition.
- - First edition. Second part only.
€ 80 --
71 HAMZEH, Fuad Said. International Conciliation, with Special Reference to the Work of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine. Den Haag, Pasmans (for the author), 1963.Royal 8vo. Pp. x, 178. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Original card wrappers. Very good condition. (Wraps bit soiled, sunned).
- - A doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam.
€ 30 --
72 (HECHALUZ, Deutscher Landesverband). Tatsachen und Probleme Palästinas [Palaetinas]: Plan für 10 Heimabende. Berlin, Hechaluz, 1934.Small 8vo. Pp. 48. Bibliography. Original printed wrappers. Very good. (Neat repair to cover; corner of some leaves chipped.)
Materialiensammlung Heft 4.
€ 45 --
73 HEDIN, Sven. Jerusalem. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1918.Royal octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 342. Plus frontispiece, two maps, and numerous other halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With numerous halftone and line-drawn illustrations throughout, many of which full-page. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original cloth-backed green paper-covered boards, printed in red and black, bit sunned. In a very good condition. Nice copy, internally crisp.
- - First edition. Drawn primarily on George Adam Smith’s “Historical Geography of the Holy Land.” Contains a remarkably rich and diverse collection of photographs, as well as pen-and-ink drawings. In German.
€ 85 --
74 HEDIN, Sven. Jerusalem. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1918.Royal octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 342. Plus frontispiece and many other plates. Two maps. With numerous text illustrations, many of which are full-page. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, recased in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and paper-covered boards, printed in red and black. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Drawn primarily on George Adam Smith’s “Historical Geography of the Holy Land.” In German.
€ 30 --
75 HOCHE, Jules. Le pays des Croisades. Ouvrage illustré d’un nombre considérable de gravures et d’une carte de la Palestine. Paris, Librairie Illustrée, n.d. (ca. 1880).Quarto. Pp. (ii) dedication leaf, 646. Half-title, title page with engraved illustration. Plus 31 full-page engraved plates and one full-page tinted engraved map of Palestine. With hundreds of engraved illustrations to the text. Footnotes. Hardcover, original richly decorated pictorial red cloth, illustration and title embossed in gilt, printed in green and black within gilt border; spine richly ornamental with green crosses within gilt panels. All edges gilt. In a very good condition, with some faults and flaws typical to oversized, overweight, 19th century volume; foxed.
- - First edition. A remarkably richly illustrated study with excellent views, landscapes, architecture, archaeology, customs, peoples and religions, etc., by various artists and draughtsmen.
€ 285 --
76 HOLLIS, Gertrude. The Land of the Incarnation. London, Gardner, Darton, ca. 1915.Crown octavo. Pp. 304. Index. Hardcover, original red cloth, embossed. In a very good condition. (Old stamp.) Fine, bright copy.
First edition. Aims to cover the complete history of Palestine, from before the Exodus until the return of the Jews and the Zionist Movement. With chapters on history mostly, but geography, the people, flora and fauna, manners, customs, and religious life are also covered. Scarce.
€ 45 --
77 HÖLSCHER, G., and Peter Thomsen (Series Editors). Caspar René Gregory, Hermann Guthe, Otto Procksch, Hermann Propst, Valentin Schwöbel. Das Land der Bibel: Gemeinverständliche Heffe zur Palästinakunde [Palaestinakunde]. Nine Parts in One Volume. I+II: Die geographischen Verhältnisse Syriens und Palästinas [Palaestinas] nach Wilhelm von Tyrus, Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, 2 Parts; III: Zu Fuss in Bibellanden; IV+V: Die Landesnatur Palästinas, 2 Parts; VI: Die Völker Altpalästinas; VII: Die griechisch-römischen Städte des Ostjordanlandes; VIII: Denkmäler Palästinas aus der Zeit Jesu; IX: Gerasa. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1914-27.8vo. Pp. Series title and title to each part. 84; 42, with notes, bibliography, index; 44; 56; 52; 42; 44, with notes; 40, with bibliography; 70, with single-page plan printed in two colours, and seven other illustrations to the text, notes. Hardcover, embossed black cloth, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Some leaves lightly spotted, occasionally some pencil markings, nice initial stamp to title.) Excellent copy.
First edition. Propst, Die geographischen Verhältnisse Syriens und Palästinas nach Wilhelm von Tyrus, Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, 1927; Gregory, Zu Fuss in Bibellanden, 1919; Schwöbel, Die Landesnatur Palästinas, 1914; Procksch, Die Völker Altpalästinas, 1914; Guthe, Die griechisch-römischen Städte des Ostjordanlandes, 1918; Thomsen, Denkmäler Palästinas aus der Zeit Jesu, 1916; Guthe, Gerasa, 1919. This copy bears a table of contents, in manuscript in a very neat hand, mounted to front flyleaf.
€ 110 --
78 HOPPE, Fritz. Palästina [Palaestina]. Bielefeld, Velhagen & Klasing, 1926.Octavo. Pp. 102. With 75 halftone photographic illustrations (many of which full-page), 4 tinted plates, and one map. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards, with mounted colour plate. In a very good condition (light spotting to endpapers, lower board slightly rubbed). Nice copy.
First edition. Palestine old and new, Jewish and Arab, modern and ancient, urban and rural, in a well selected collection of photographs, many of which are rarely printed elsewhere. Includes very rare air surveillance photographs of Nazareth and Jerusalem, borrowed from the War Archive in Munich, and nicely reproduced here as full-page plates.
€ 75 --
79 HÜTTENMEISTER, Frowald, and Gottfried Reeg. Die antiken Synagogen in Israel. Volume I: Die jüdischen Synagogen, Lehrhäuser und Gerichtshöfe; Volume II: Die samaritanischen Synagogen. [Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients]. Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert, 1977.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xxii, 528; 533-724, 4. Plus 4 folding maps bound at rear of volume II. Index. English summary; a foreword in Hebrew. Uniformly bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent set.
- - First edition.
€ 275 --
80 JUYNBOLL, Abraham, Wilhelm, Theodorus. Ernst Meier, translated by J. Anspach. Juda en de Assyrische macht, gedurende de jaren 741-711. [BOUND WITH:] Het Hoogelied, vrij bewerkt naar het Hoogduitsch. Leiden, Engels, 1863. Tiel, Campagne, 1855.Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. Pp. x (iv), 128; title, xii, (ii), 58 (ii). Footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, shelf label to upper board, old institutional stamps to prelims. In a very good condition (expert repair to gutter of last two leaves). Fine copy.
First editions. The first work is an academic dissertation, submitted to the University of Leiden in 1863.
€ 85 --
81 KARGE, Paul. Die Resultate der neueren Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Palästina [Palaestina]. Biblische Zeitfragen, Dritte Folge, Heft 8/9. Münster, Aschendorff, 1912.Octavo. Pp. 96. Footnotes. Original orange-red wrappers, printed in black. Uncut. Wraps worn.
Third, revised edition.
€ 15 --
82 KENDALL, H. B. (Editor). Pictorial Sketches from Bible Lands: Views of Some of the Most Beautiful, Famous, and Historical Places in the Holy Land, with Racy and Interesting Descriptions of the Same. London, Thomas Mitchell, ca. 1890.8vo. Pp. 144. Engraved frontispiece. With numerous engraved illustrations throughout, many of which full-page. Decorative initials. Hardcover, original illustrated red cloth, embossed in gilt and silver, spine gilt. All edges gilt. In fine condition. (Endpapers lightly browned, lower cover bit sunned along spine.) Excellent copy.
Second, revised, extended and rearranged edition. A charming set of illustrations. With a lovely woodcut dedication plate tinted in green, pasted onto front flyleaf, with neat inscription “Prize Awarded to Edith Haimes for Holy Scripture (Examination) Christmas 1894”.
€ 95 --
83 KEULERS, Jos. Illustrated by Jos. Speybrouck. Bijbelse geschiedenis. Roermond, Romen, 1949.4to. Pp. 643. Set in two columns. With numerous pen-and-ink illustrations, many of which full-page. Title printed in two colours, illustrated. Hardcover, original illustrated brown cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt, top edge coloured. In a very good condition. (Endpapers faintly tanned.) Nice copy.
First edition.
€ 50 --
84 KRAUSS, Samuel. Vier jahrtausende jüdischen Palästinas [Palaestinas]. Frankfurt, Kauffmann, 1922.Octavo. Pp. 158. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards. Good. Binding marked; interior is fine.
First edition. Scarce.
€ 40 --
85 LANDAU, Jacob M. (Editor). Abdul-Hamid’s Palestine: Rare Century-old Photographs from the Private Collection of the Ottoman Sultan, now Published for the First Time. London, André Deutsch, 1979.Crown quarto. Pp. 144. Frontispiece. Double-page map. Profusely illustrated with numerous halftone photographic plates, many of which full- or double-page. Index. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original brown cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition.
First edition. A fascinating gallery of historical photographs of Palestine under Ottoman rule.
€ 75 --
86 LEVY, Brakha, Se’ev Berlinger, and Zwi Silberstein. Flowers of Israel: Twenty Five Wild Flowers. Fleurs d’Israël: Vingt cinq fleurs des champs. Haifa, Department of Education, 1960.Royal 8vo. Unpaginated. 24 watercolour plates, each facing a text page in English and French. Glossary and index in both languages. Hardcover, original pictorial boards, illustrated as an extra plate. In a near fine condition. (Small inscription to front flyleaf blank.) A lovely copy.
First edition. Aba Khoushi, Haifa’s Mayor in the 60th, was known as a great lover of botany and a keen collector of Cacti. Thanks to his enthusiasm, projects such as this publication were possible.
€ 32 --
87 LEWIN, Thomas. The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus. With the Journal of a Recent Visit to the Holy City, and a General Sketch of the Topography of Jerusalem From the Earliest Times Down to the Siege. [CAPTAIN CONDER’S R.E. COPY]. London, Longman, Green, Sabers, 1863.Three parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xv, (i), 493. With two divisional titles. Plus 2 engraved plates by Edward Weller, printed on different paper bound-in, and a large, hand-coloured folding lithograph map of Jerusalem, based on Tobler’s map, with inset plan of the Castle of David, loosely inserted as issued; a short split to folds’ intersection. With 14 (counted as 13) plans and illustrations to the text. Footnotes, appendix, index. Hardcover, original decorated pebbled blue cloth, by Westleys of London, bit discoloured, sides blind panelled, upper cover gilt stamped, spine richly decorated in gilt, upper joint neatly mended, minor wear to extremities; chalked endpapers, bookplate. Nice copy in a very good condition.
- - First edition. Captain Conder’s, R.E. copy, with a memorandum in manuscript, addressed to him by Thomas Chaplin, loosely inserted. It consists of a single leaf of paper measuring ca. 20 X 13 cm with 19 lines of text in manuscript and Chaplin’s signature. Dated at top “March 17, 1882, Jerusalem” it opens: “Returned to Captain Conder R.E. the following property of the Palestine Expl. Fund.” It then describes the list of items, specifying item 3 as: “Lewin, Siege of Jerusalem”. Folded into three, it is addressed on the back by the same hand in manuscript: “Captain Conder R. E.” (Overall fine, with 2 tears.) Dr. Thomas J. Chaplin (1830-1904) held the position of director of the British Hospital for the Jews in Jerusalem for a quarter of a century. During these years he acted to improve the medical situation in the city and engaged in scientific researches in a variety of fields. By virtue of his achievements and his gracious personality, the Jewish people in Jerusalem named Chaplin as “The Great English Doctor”. Lieutenant Claude Reignier Conder, R.E. (1848-1910) was appointed in 1872 to the command of the Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine. Two years later he was joined by his friend, Lieutenant Horatio Kitchener (1850-1916). Together with Sergeants Black and Armstrong, R.E., they continued the work of the Survey until their camp at Safed was attacked by the Muslim inhabitants of the town. Kitchener bravely defended his superior but both officers and several other members of the party were seriously injured, and the work of the Survey was halted. In 1881 Captain Conder returned to carry out the Survey of Eastern Palestine. Although his work came to an end in 1882, Colonel Conder continued to study the geography, history, and archaeology of Palestine, and was the author of many books dealing with these subjects. The survey occupied seven years in the field, and more than two years in addition were spent in the preparation of the work for publication. The whole of the surveyed area covered more than 6,000 square miles. The area was mapped, and natural features of the country were catalogued. The surveys have established a general index to the native names of about 9,000 places, and identified Biblical and other historical sites. Photographs, sketches, and other illustrations were made and collected, laying a sound foundation for every kind of research in Palestine connected with topography. The author, Thomas Lewin, was born in London in 1805, educate at Worchester College, Oxford and at Lincoln’s Inn, London, from where he graduated as a barrister. Beside books on the history of the Holy Land he wrote about law. He died in 1877. This work consists of three parts, and includes Lewin’s “A Sketch of Jerusalem” which was originally published in 1861. Facing a rather heavy criticism on his attempt to describe the city without ever visiting her, Lewin decided a year later to “correct the error” and in September 1862 travelled to the Holy City. An account of this trip is published here as the second part of the book. Excellent work, a fascinating interweaving of a study of topography, a pilgrim’s travelogue, and the story of the military campaign at the last days of Jerusalem. Tobler, 202. Very scarce. OCLC lists just six copies in the United Kingdom - in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, King’s College, Queen’s, and Manchester University Libraries. KVK locates 4 other copies: one in Italy; one in Canada; two in Germany. A most uncommon copy with fine provenance.
€ 1200 --
88 LEWIN, Thomas. The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus. With the Journal of a Recent Visit to the Holy City, and a General Sketch of the Topography of Jerusalem From the Earliest Times Down to the Siege. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863.Three parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xv, (i), 499. With two divisional titles. Plus 2 engraved plates by Edward Weller, printed on different paper, bound-in, and a large, hand-coloured folding lithograph map of Jerusalem, grounded on Tobler’s map, with inset plan of the Castle of David (small tear at side). With 13 plans and illustrations to the text. Footnotes, appendix, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, sides blind panelled, single inner hinge starting, spine gilt, light wear to spine ends. In about fine condition (two bookplates to first paste-down). Overall an excellent copy, very well preserved, partly still unopened.
- - First edition. Lieutenant Claude Reignier Conder, R.E. (1848-1910) was appointed in 1872 to the command of the Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine. Two years later he was joined by his friend, Lieutenant Horatio Kitchener (1850-1916). Together with Sergeants Black and Armstrong, R.E., they continued the work of the Survey until their camp at Safed was attacked by the Muslim inhabitants of the town. Kitchener bravely defended his superior but both officers and several other members of the party were seriously injured, and the work of the Survey was halted. In 1881 Captain Conder returned to carry out the Survey of Eastern Palestine. Although his work came to an end in 1882, Colonel Conder continued to study the geography, history, and archaeology of Palestine, and was the author of many books dealing with these subjects. The survey occupied seven years in the field, and more than two years in addition were spent in the preparation of the work for publication. The whole of the surveyed area covered more than 6,000 square miles. The area was mapped, and natural features of the country were catalogued. The surveys have established a general index to the native names of about 9,000 places, and identified Biblical and other historical sites. Photographs, sketches, and other illustrations were made and collected, laying a sound foundation for every kind of research in Palestine connected with topography. The author, Thomas Lewin, was born in London in 1805, educate at Worchester College, Oxford and at Lincoln’s Inn, London, from where he graduated as a barrister. Beside books on the history of the Holy Land he wrote about law. He died in 1877. This work consists of three parts, and includes Lewin’s “A Sketch of Jerusalem” which was originally published in 1861. Facing a rather heavy criticism on his attempt to describe the city without ever visiting her, Lewin decided a year later to “correct the error” and in September 1862 travelled to the Holy City. An account of this trip is published here as the second part of the book. Excellent work, a fascinating interweaving of a study of topography, a pilgrim’s travelogue, and the story of the military campaign at the last days of Jerusalem. Tobler, 202. OCLC lists only 6 copies in the United Kingdom - in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, King’s College, Queen’s, and Manchester. KVK locates 4 other copies: one in Italy; one in Canada; two in Germany.
€ 750 --
89 LOOMAN, T. M. Gids voor den Bijbellezer. Amsterdam, Höveker, 1887.Crown octavo. Pp. xx, 491. Plus five coloured lithographed maps, four of which folding (one as frontispiece). Appendix, glossary. Hardcover, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with original cover laid down. In a very good condition (some notations to one table, marginal tear to one leaf, signature clipped out of half-title.) Overall nice, well preserved copy.
Sixth edition. With the following maps: Kanaän of het Heilige Land; De oude wereld; Tocht der Israeliten uit Egypte naar Kanaän; de Profeten des Ouden Testaments, aanduidende de vier Wereldrijken; de reizen van Paulus in Europa en Azië.
€ 95 --
90 MACALISTER, R. A. S. A Century of Excavation in Palestine. London, Religious Tract Society, 1930.8vo. Pp. 336. Plus frontispiece map and 35 halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Signature clipped out of title, rust traces of paper-clip to prelims, scattered spotting mostly marginal, edges spotted.) Else, sound copy.
Second edition. With a nice set of photographs, printed in tinted ink, from the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
€ 35
91 MANNING, Samuel. “Those Holy Fields.” Palestine Illustrated by Pen and Pencil. New and Improved Edition. London, Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1874).Crown quarto. Pp. 223, 8 fully illustrated publisher’s catalogue. Engraved frontispiece with facing tissue guard. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous engravings, many of which are full-page plates printed on side one of the leaf only; engraved vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; several (full-page) maps and plans; engraved elaborate first initial. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, original richly gilt pictorial cloth, decorative gilt spine; blind ruled lower board. All edges gilt. Lovely floral pattern endpapers. Overall very good. (Some marginal stains to first few leaves; hinges mended with bleeding of old glue staining inner margin of first 3 leaves; some blemishes, rubbing to cloth on spine extremities.) Good copy in handsome binding.
The selection of images, the design and layout of this edition vary greatly from that of later editions, with the book divided into 3 sections: Southern Palestine, or Judaea; Central Palestine, or Samaria; Northern Palestine, or Galilee. The charming illustrations are wood-engravings and photoxylographs (wood engravings from photographs); the original pen-and-pencil drawings are reproduced here in Gillotage, a method of printing from etched metal relief block. They are all of high quality, contributing greatly to the charm of this classic. Rev. Samuel Manning was a clergyman who, like many of his contemporaries, acquired his great knowledge of the Holy Land entirely from a study of the Bible. In 1873, however, he travelled to Palestine so he could “compare the Land and the Book”. Upon returning he published his travelogue, though one can hardly imagine he managed to visit and study in detail all the regions he describes. Noteworthy, some of the illustrations are indeed true representation of the place, engraved after original photographs. A lovely book.
€ 75 --
92 MATTHEWS, Charles D. Palestine-Mohammedan Holy Land. [Yale Oriental Series Researches, Volume XXIV]. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1949.Crown 4to. Pp. xxx, 176. Plus folding historical and religious map of Palestine bound at rear. Side-notes, notes, bibliography, index. With a charming device to title, in Hebrew and Latin, “Lvx et Veritas”. Hardcover, original black cloth, lettered in gilt, spine gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 75 --
93 [MAZAR, B., N. Avigad, M. Avi-Yonah, A. Biran, Y. Yadin, J. Aviram]. Israel Exploration Journal. Volume 19, Issues no. 1-4, 1969. [4 ISSUES]. Jerusalem, 1969.4 issues. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 256, vi, (ii). Plus 18 plates with numerous photo-illustrations, printed on different paper. Illustrated. Original wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Israel Exploration Journal, a quarterly published by the joint editorial board of the Israel Exploration Society, the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University the Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Education and Culture.
€ 30 --
94 MAZAR, B., Trude Dothan, I. Dunayevsky. Atiqot. En-Gedi: The First and Second Seasons of Excavations, 1961-1962. [Journal of the Israel Department of Antiquities.] Volume V. Jerusalem, Department of Antiquities and Museums; Ministry of Education and Culture, 1966.Quarto. Pp. 100. Frontispiece. Plus xxxvi plates with numerous photo-illustrations, printed on different paper; fold-out plates. Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - First edition. English Series.
€ 20 --
95 MONTET, Pierre. l’Egypte et la Bible. Neuchatel, Delachaux & Niestlé, 1959.Crown 8vo. Pp. 141. Plus 8 halftone plates. With 21 line-drawn illustrations to the text; footnotes, chronology, bibliography. Original illustrated wrappers. In excellent condition.
First edition.
€ 25 --
96 MOOREY, P. R. S.; Azaria Alon; Meron Benvenisti; Christopher Hollis and Ronald Brownrigg; H. V. Morton and René Burri. Biblical Lands. [AND:] The Natural History of the Land of the Bible. [AND:] The Crusaders in the Holy Land. [AND:] Holy Places: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Monuments in the Holy Land. [AND:] In Search of the Holy Land. [FIVE BOOKS]. London, Elsevier Phaidon; Hamlyn; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Methuen, 1969-75. Jerusalem, IUP, 1970.Lot of 5 books. Quarto. Pp. 151; 276; 408; 224; 159. All are profusely illustrated throughout with numerous black&white and colour photographs, drawings, maps, etc. Indices. All 5 books are hardcover, original cloth with dust-jackets. In a very good condition.
-- A collection of books on the Holy Land: history, architecture, archaeology, natural history, daily life past and present. Well illustrated.
€ 45 --
97 NEGENMAN, Johan. Een geografie van Palestina. Kampen, Kok, 1982.Octavo. Pp. 173. Plus one extending map bound in. With numerous maps to the text. Side-notes, bibliography, index. Original wrappers. In fine condition.
First edition. Palaestina Antiqua part 2.
€ 18 --
98 NEIL, James. Palestine Explored. With a View to Its Present Natural Features, and to the Prevailing Manners, Customs, Rites, and Colloqu[i]al Expressions of its People, which Throw Light on the Figurative Language of the Bible. London, James Nisbet, 1907.8vo. Pp. x, (ii), 319, (2) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece. With 5 full-page illustrations and one sketch map of Jerusalem and environs. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, original decorated green cloth, spine gilt. In a very food condition. (Stamps to front flyleaf.) Handsome copy.
Twelfth edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down. Neil, the author of the successful “Pictured Palestine”, has lived in Jerusalem from 1871 to 1874, and became familiar with the land and its peoples. He returned in 1875 to travel both Egypt and the Holy Land, where he had concluded his writing.
€ 35 --
99 NEIL, James. Illustrated by James Clark, Henry A. Harper, et al. Pictured Palestine. London, James Nisbet, 1891.8vo. Pp. viii, 322, (6) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece with tissue guard. With 80 pen-and-ink and engraved plates and text illustrations throughout. Footnotes, appendix, indices. Hardcover, original decorated brown cloth, illustration embossed, lettering gilt-stamped, spine gilt, top-edge-gilt. Black endpapers. Handsome copy in near fine condition. (Pencil inscription; spine ends bit bumped.) Excellent.
€ 95 --
100 NOORDTZIJ, A. De Filistijnen: Hun afkomst en geschiedenis. Kampen, J. H. Kok, 1905.8vo. Pp. 248. Footnotes, bibliography. With numerous words in Hebrew explained in the text. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards with original covers laid down. In a near fine condition. (Upper board bit sunned.) Excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 35 --
101 OLIPHANT, Mrs. Illustrated by Hamilton Aidë and F. M. Good. Jerusalem the Holy City: Its History and Hope. London, Macmillan, 1891.Royal 8vo. Pp. xxiii, 515. Frontispiece, protected by tissue guard. With numerous wood engravings, many of which full-page. Index. Hardcover, original decorated green cloth gilt- and silver stamped, spine decorated gilt. Top edge gilt. Good condition. (Spine ends worn.)
First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 48 --
102 PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. PALESTINE EXPLORATION QUARTERLY. EMBODYING THE QUARTERLY STATEMENT OF THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. 100TH-128TH YEAR, 1968-1996. [56 VOLUMES]. London, Palestine Exploration Fund, 1968-96.56 volumes. Royal octavo. Profusely illustrated. Contain research, essays, news, reports, reviews, etc. Bound in the original publisher’s white card wrappers (some foxing to early issues’ covers). In fine condition. Mostly unused. Excellent.
- - First edition. About complete run of a period spanning over a quarter of a century, covering 28 years of research activity. - Does not include the year 1987. The Palestine Exploration Fund, founded in 1865, set to investigate the topography, archaeology, geography, and peoples of the Holy Land. To further these objects it published the Quarterly, which later appeared as biannual. With original publicity material and publication announcements loosely inserted.
€ 1700 --
103 PIETSCHMANN, Richard. [G. Maspero]. Maspero’s Geschichte der Morgenländischen Völker im Altertum. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1877.Royal 8vo. Pp. 644. Plus folding lithographed map bound at rear. Footnotes, index. Printed wrappers. Textually complete and clean, in poor binding. Reading copy.
Based on Maspero’s second edition. With a foreword by Prof. Georg Ebers.
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104 PORTER, J. Leslie. Jerusalem Bethany, and Bethlehem. London, Thomas Nelson, 1887.Quarto. Pp. (ii) dedication leaf, (vi), xxii, 9-168, (2) index, 4 publisher’s ads. Wood-engraved frontispiece. Wood-engraved illustration to title-page, title in red and black. Plus fine coloured lithograph plan of Jerusalem and environs by W. M. Thomson, 1880, and a 4-panel fold-out coloured lithograph panorama of Jerusalem bound in. With a total of 91 illustrations of various techniques, many of which are full-page plates. Appendix. Hardcover, original mustard-brown cloth, blocked in gilt and black with decorative initial, illustration gilt stamped, spine gilt, lower cover blind stamped. Bevelled edges, chalked maroon endpapers. All edges gilt. In a very good condition. (Spine and adjoining edges of boards faded, dull.) Nice copy with crisp plates.
First edition. Porter published in 1858 the excellent two-part “A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine” which gave an account of the geography, history, antiquities, and inhabitants of these countries. “I have not attempted to write a learned treatise on the topography or history of Jerusalem,” wrote Porter in 1886 regarding “Jerusalem...” “My task has been far simpler - to produce a book whose pictures, by pen and pencil, may perchance direct the attention of readers of all classes to scenes of absorbing scared interest.” The illustrations, mostly wood engravings and photoxylographs (wood engravings from photographs), but also a Gillotage (printed from etched metal relief block) or two, are of fine quality, contributing greatly to the charm of this classic. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 125 --
105 PRÉVOST, L., et al. Le sinaï, hier... Aujourd’hui. Étude topographique, biblique, historique, archéologique. Paris, Lethielleux, 1936.Crown quarto. Pp. 314. With maps and numerous halftone illustrations, many of which full-page. Footnotes, bibliography, appendices. Hardcover, contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards. In a very good condition indeed.
First edition.
€ 60 --
106 PROCKSCH, Otto. Die Völker Altpalästinas. Das Land der Bibel, Band I, Heft 2. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1914.Octavo. Pp. 42. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (old ownership signature; wraps lightly foxed).
First edition.
€ 30 --
107 RAVEN, C. E. (Introduction). Palestine in Picture. Cambridge, Heffer, 1929.4to. Pp. xii, 6 index, 221, (1) sources. With 221 halftone plates, printed on different paper. Hardcover, original decorated carrot cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. Very good. (Binding dust-soiled, endpapers spotted.) Otherwise, a fine set of plates.
First edition.
€ 48 --
108 REICKE, Bo, and Leonhard Rost (Editors). Biblisch-Historisches Handwörterbuch: Landeskunde, Geschichte, Religion, Kultur, Literatur. Volumes I-III. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962-66.Three volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xl, 2256. Set in two columns and numbered accordingly. Colour frontispiece to each volume. Plus a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With numerous maps and illustrations to the text. Lacking the 2 decorative folding maps. Hardcover, original wine red cloth, spines gilt, with dust-jackets. In a very fine condition (institutional stamp to each volume). Excellent set, bright and fresh.
First edition. Volume I: A-G; Volume II: H-O; Volume III: P-Z.
€ 75 --
109 RÖHRICHT, Reinhold. Geschichte der Kreuzzüge im Umriss [Umriß]. Innsbruck, Wagner’s, 1898.Octavo. Pp. iv, 272, (2) publisher’s ads. Letterpress device to title. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, these a little rubbed, title lettered in gilt, all edges sprinkled. In fine condition (shelf label to tail of spine, old stamps to front flyleaf blank). Excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 160 --
110 RUSSELL, Michael. Palestine, or the Holy Land, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, (1837).Small octavo. Pp. 400. Plus folding steel-engraved map as frontispiece. Engraved vignette on half-title and 8 other engraved plates and illustrations. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt, spine decorated in gilt, small splits to joints neatly mended. In a near fine condition. A lovely copy.
- - Fourth edition. An interesting combination, not much common until the publication of this book, of an account of the constitution, the antiquities, the religion, and the literature of the Hebrews, with a narrative of their history in the Holy Land. It contains rich topographical description of the Holy Land, drawn from the works of numerous travellers and pilgrims, and a chapter on the land’s natural history in relation to the Scriptures. Tobler, 218. With an old bookplate of the South Hetton Literary & Reading Society.
€ 125 --
111 RUYSCH, W. A. (Editor). The Holy Land: New Light on the Prehistory and Early History of Israel. (Antiquity and Survival, Vol. II: 2-3). The Hague & Jerusalem, 1957.Square octavo. Pp. 79-317. Profusely illustrated throughout. Set in double columns. Original wrappers. In about fine condition.
First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 18 --
112 SAINTINE, Gérardy P. Trois ans en Judée. Paris, Hachette, 1860.12mo. Pp. 376. Dedication leaf. Plus two fine lithograph plans of Jerusalem, the ancient and this of modern times, bound at end (bit spotted). Footnotes. Hardcover, contemporary vellum over marbled boards. In a very good condition (spine darkened, remnants of shelf labels; old institutional stamps, label to upper board). Very neat copy.
- - First edition. Not in Tobler.
€ 95 --
113 SAUNDERS, Trelawney. An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains, & Highlands. According to the Survey Conducted by Lieutenants Conder & Kitchener, R.E. for the Palestine Exploration Fund. London, Bentley, 1881.8vo. Pp. xiv, 256. Hardcover, original sea-green cloth, decorated, embossed with the Palestine Exploration Fund emblem, spine gilt. Dark-green chalked endpapers. In a very good condition. (Cloth bit darkened; first few leaves spotted.) Overall an excellent copy.
First edition. The publication of the remarkable Survey of Holy Land was a landmark in the study of the history of Palestine - sacred and profane, ancient, mediaeval, and modern alike. The survey occupied seven years in the field, and more than two years in addition were spent in the preparation of the work for publication. The whole of the surveyed area covered more than 6,000 square miles. The area was mapped, and natural features of the country - its hills and valleys, springs, wells, cisterns, water courses and streams, its towns, villages, ruins, and highways - were catalogued. The surveys have established a general index to the native names of about 9,000 places, and identified Biblical and other historical sites. Photographs, sketches, and other illustrations were made and collected, laying a sound foundation for every kind of research in Palestine connected with topography.
€ 275 --
114 SAYCE, A. H. Patriarchal Palestine. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895.Crown 8vo. Pp. xiv, 15-277, (8) publisher’s ads. Plus frontispiece map in four colours. Index. Hardcover, original black cloth, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Short split to upper joint, some spots to prelims.) Else, clean, nice copy.
First edition. Written in light of the archaeological discoveries in Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, and Palestine, Rev. Sayce discusses the land and its people, the Babylonians in Canaan, the Egyptian conquest, the Patriarchs, the Egyptian travellers in Canaan, and the Canaanitish culture and religion. With a list of Dynasties during the Patriarchal Age.
€ 35 --
115 SCHIFFER, Sina. Die Aramäer. Historisch-geographische Untersuchungen. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1911.Octavo. Pp. xii, 207. Plus a folding map tipped-in at rear. With texts set in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic type. Footnotes, index. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (some light scattered spotting). A well preserved copy.
- - First edition. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 220 --
116 SCHNELLER, Ludwig. Aus schöner Vergangenheit: Erinnerungen. Leipzig, Wallmann, 1935.Crown 8vo. Pp. 159, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus colour frontispiece. With one double-page view, and 6 single-page plates, mostly portraits. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original decorated pale blue, embossed in gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition. (Some spotting to endpapers; lower panel of dust-jacket soiled.) Else fine copy.
First edition. The story of the adventurous journey of the German General Consul in Jerusalem to Jericho, in 1887.
€ 20 --
117 SCHOLTEN, Francois. La Palestine illustrée. Tableau complet de la Terre Sainte par la photographie, évoquant les souvenirs de la Bible, du Talmud et du Coran, et se rapportant au passé comme au présent. Volume I: La porte d’entrée Jaffa. Volume II: Jaffa la belle. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Budry, 1929.Two volumes. Crown 4to. Pp. xxxvi, 203, plus 200 unnumbered pages of illustrations; xxiii, 169, plus 166 unnumbered pages of illustrations. With a total of 820 (helio)gravures, printed in tinted ink. Footnotes, concordances. Original decorated wrappers with flaps, printed in red and black, with mounted tinted gravure plate to each. In a near-fine condition. (Wraps bit thumbed, marked; small oval stamp effaced from each volume’s prelims, small number-label to each cover.) Overall, two excellent copies.
- - First edition. An unnumbered copy from a Limited Edition of one thousand. A visual celebration indeed, combining excellent photography, superb printing, and a sensitive editor’s eye. Remarkable cross-reference between modern iconography and Biblical sources. The fine technique of gravure printing (Kupfertiefdruck, Rakeltiefdruck), developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is often referred to erratically as photogravure or heliogravure, terms which describe another process. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, and reproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. It was not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliant and faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history of printing, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old hand photogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and the technique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards.
€ 275 --
118 SCHOLTEN, Francois. La Palestine illustrée. Tableau complet de la Terre Sainte par la photographie, évoquant les souvenirs de la Bible, du Talmud et du Coran, et se rapportant au passé comme au présent. I: La porte d’entrée Jaffa; II: Jaffa la belle. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Budry, 1929.Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxii notes and introduction, 203, xxxvi, plus 200 unnumbered pages of illustrations interleaved; xiv notes and introduction, 169, xxiii, plus 166 unnumbered pages of illustrations interleaved. With a total of 820 (helio)gravure illustrations, printed in tinted ink. Footnotes, concordances. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full buckram, blue lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent set, exceptionally clean and well preserved.
- - First edition. This edition, prepared and bound by the co-publisher Sijthoff of Leiden’s, contains the very useful Notes and Introduction at the beginning of each volume, which are not included in the other editions. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of one thousand. A visual celebration, combining excellent photography, superb printing, and a sensitive editor’s eye. Remarkable cross-reference between modern iconography and Biblical sources. The fine technique of gravure printing (Kupfertiefdruck, Rakeltiefdruck), developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is often referred to erratically as photogravure or heliogravure, terms which describe another process. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, and reproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. It was not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliant and faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history of printing, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old hand photogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and the technique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards.
€ 350 --
119 SCHOLTEN, Frank. Palestina: Bijbel, Talmud, Koran. Een volledige illustratie van alle teksten door middel van eigen artistieke foto’s uit het heden en verleden van het Heilige Land: De toegangspoort Jaffa. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935.Crown quarto. Pp. xlv, 203, plus 200 unnumbered pages of illustrations. With a total of 449 fine (helio)gravures, printed in tinted ink by Société de Gravure et d’Impression d’Art, Paris. Footnotes, concordances, bibliography. Hardcover, original buckram lettered in blue. In fine condition (scattered foxing; spine spotted). Nice copy.
- - An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of one thousand. A visual celebration indeed, combining excellent photography, superb printing, and a sensitive editor’s eye. Remarkable cross-reference between modern iconography and Biblical sources. The fine technique of gravure printing (Kupfertiefdruck, Rakeltiefdruck), developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is often referred to erratically as photogravure or heliogravure, terms which describe another process. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, and reproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. It was not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliant and faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history of printing, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old hand photogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and the technique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards.
€ 125 --
120 SCHÖNHAK, Joseph [Yosef ben Benyamin Dov Shenhak]. Toldath Haaretz. [Sefer Toledot ha-Arez]. [Toledoth Toldot Toldos Toldoth Toldas harec ha-Aretz ha-arets Haarez Ha’arez Ha’aretz Ha’arets]. Historya [Historia] Naturalna Botanika; Mineralogia. [THREE VOLUMES]. Warsaw, H. Bomberg (Zvi [Tsevi] Ya’akov); Warszawie, Drukarni J. Lebensona, 1841-59.Three volumes in one. Octavo. Pp. 359; 96; 40. Three title-pages present. Handsome vignette illustration at end of approbations and introduction. Contemporary ownership inscriptions, stamps. Browned, occasionally stained in places. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf and brown cloth, gilt lettering-piece to spine, cloth inner hinges. Moderately worn, good.
- - First edition. Written in Hebrew, mostly in Rashi script. The second volume, on botany, includes many Latin names. Joseph Schönhak was born at Tiktin, 1812; died at Suwalki, 1870. He led a retired life, devoting his time to writing and study. He was the author of “Ha-Mashbir” or “Aruk he-Hadash” (Warsaw 1858). His “Toldath Haaretz” (Toledot ha-Arez) is a natural history in three volumes. The subjects are arranged and classified, and a full description of each is given as to color, form, and habitat. Those that are mentioned in the Bible are given book, chapter, and verse; and so with those mentioned in the Talmud. The “Ha-Masbir” is an Aramaic-German rabbinical dictionary, based on Nathan ben Jehiel’s “Aruk” (“Hamiluim oder Masbir Hachadasch. Aramäisch-rabinisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, Ergenzung zu dem Hamasbir oder Aruch” Warsaw 1869.) His “Sefer ha-Milluim” was published in Warsaw in 1869 (“Sefer Ha-Miluim Le-Aruch: A dictionary to the Talmud and Midrashim, based on the order of the Aruch, with clarification of readings and sources from the Babylonian and Palestian Talmuds, the Tannaitic Midrahsim (...)” was reprinted 1978, Jerusalem, Makor.) Bibliography: Ha-Maggid, 1870, No. 49; Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, 1866. See also: Isidore Singer and Julius Gottlieb: The Jewish Encyclopedia. OCLC 42945349 locating Brandeis, Jewish Theological Seminar, New York Public Library, Yeshiva University, Stanford, and UCLA only. Rare.
€ 820 --
121 SCHÖNHAK, Joseph [Yosef ben Benyamin Dov Shenhak]. Toldath Haaretz. [Sefer Toledot ha-Arez]. [Toledoth Toldot Toldos Toldoth Toldas harec ha-Aretz ha-arets Haarez Ha’arez Ha’aretz Ha’arets]. Historya [Historia] Naturalna. Warsaw, H. Bomberg (Zvi [Tsevi] Ya’akov); Warszawie, Drukarni J. Lebensona, 1841.Octavo. Pp. 359, (4). Handsome vignette illustration at end of approbations and introduction. Old stamps. Hardcover, modern cloth, shelf number on sine. A very good copy.
- - First part of three, complete in its own. Second edition, printed in the same year as the first edition. To this edition, which is practically identical to the first, a decorative title-page has been added, with a phrase from the Book of Job printed on verso. Also added here is a Rabbinical Approbation, “Words of Praise from The Wise Men of the Censor of Warsaw”, as well as a 4-page Subscribers’ list, bound at the end, which are not present in the earlier edition. Written in Hebrew, mostly in Rashi script. Joseph Schönhak was born at Tiktin, 1812; died at Suwalki, 1870. He led a retired life, devoting his time to writing and study. He was the author of “Ha-Mashbir” or “Aruk he-Hadash” (Warsaw 1858). His “Toldath Haaretz” (Toledot ha-Arez) is a natural history in three parts. The subjects are arranged and classified, and a full description of each is given as to color, form, and habitat. Those that are mentioned in the Bible are given book, chapter, and verse; and so with those mentioned in the Talmud. The “Ha-Masbir” is an Aramaic-German rabbinical dictionary, based on Nathan ben Jehiel’s “Aruk” (“Hamiluim oder Masbir Hachadasch. Aramäisch-rabinisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, Ergenzung zu dem Hamasbir oder Aruch” Warsaw 1869.) His “Sefer ha-Milluim” was published in Warsaw in 1869 (“Sefer Ha-Miluim Le-Aruch: A dictionary to the Talmud and Midrashim, based on the order of the Aruch, with clarification of readings and sources from the Babylonian and Palestian Talmuds, the Tannaitic Midrahsim (...)” was reprinted 1978, Jerusalem, Makor.) Bibliography: Ha-Maggid, 1870, No. 49; Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, 1866. See also: Isidore Singer and Julius Gottlieb: The Jewish Encyclopedia. OCLC 42945349 locating Brandeis, Jewish Theological Seminar, New York Public Library, Yeshiva University, Stanford, and UCLA only. Rare.
€ 320 --
122 SCHOORS, A. Berseba: De opgraving van een bijbelse stad. Kampen, Kok, 1986.8vo. Pp. 140. Bibliography, index. With numerous halftone and line illustrations throughout. Original wrappers. In fine condition.
First edition. Palaestina Antiqua part 5.
€ 18 --
123 SCHUMACHER, Gottlieb. Abila of the Decapolis, Pella, and Northern ’Ajlûn, “Within the Decapolis.” [THREE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME]. London, Watt (for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund), 1889.Three books in one volume. Crown Octavo. Pp. 51; 78; 207. Plus three folding lithographed maps (one coloured), each as frontispiece to each book; two lithographed plans bound in book three. With numerous engraved illustrations (some full-page) throughout. Indices of names with transliteration, Arabic script, and translation. Hardcover, original ochre cloth, lettered in black, illustration stamped in gilt. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy of a lovely book.
- - First edition. Three books in one volume, published 1889, 1895, 1890 respectively. Provenance: Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. Schumacher was the first explorer to survey the regions described here, and his minute and thorough scientific observations, notes, maps, drawings, and sketches were prepared for publication at the request of the Palestine Exploration Fund by his friend, the explorer Guy le Strange. They were published here for the first time. Gottlieb Schumacher (1857) settled at a very young age with his family in Haifa, where his father, a member of the “Temple Association” designed most of the buildings of the German Colony. Following the completion of his engineering studies in Stuttgart, he returned to Haifa and was appointed Chief Engineer for the Province of Akko. He designed many buildings and was a leading figure in civil engineering. One of his most important projects was the survey of the Golan, Hauran, and the Ajlun districts in preparation for the construction of the Damascus-Haifa railway. In the course of this survey he produced the first accurate maps of these regions, along with detailed descriptions of the archaeological remains and the present villages. He published many other reports and books on his discoveries, supported by the Palestine Exploration Fund. With the outbreak of World War I the Templar community left for Germany. Schumacher returned in 1924 to his home on the Carmel, where he died a year later. Although he was born in Ohio, U.S.A., Gottlieb was brought-up and educated as a German. “I beg to through myself on the indulgence of my readers for the defects of style,” he once wrote, “for my work has been perforce written in a language which, though familiar to me, is not my own.” Scarce.
€ 875 --
124 SCHUMACHER, Gottlieb. With Additions by Laurence Oliphant and Guy le Strange. Across the Jordan: Being an Exploration and Survey of Part of Hauran and Jaulan. London, Bentley, 1886.Crown octavo. Pp. xvi, 342, 2 catalogue. Folding, partly coloured engraved map of Western Hauran & Eastern Jaulan, by Schumacher, as frontispiece. Plus 5 other folding engraved maps, some coloured, tipped-in. With a total of 157 engraved illustrations, some full page, throughout the text. Index in English and Arabic, footnotes. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full mustard-colour cloth, gilt-embossed illustration on upper cover, lettering embossed in black, spine lettered in black, spine ends slightly bumped. Foliage green chalked endpapers; top edge roughly trimmed. In about fine condition (contemporary institutional label pasted inside cover with small blemish to front endpaper, stamp on blank endpaper, old signature). Overall an excellent copy.
- - First edition. Schumacher was the first explorer to survey the region lying between Damascus and Haifa. His minute and thorough scientific observations, notes, maps, drawings, and sketches were prepared for publication at the request of the Palestine Exploration Fund by his friend, the explorer Guy le Strange. They were published here for the first time. The papers of le Strange and Laurence Oliphant, “A Ride Through Ajlun and the Belka During the Autumn of 1884,” and “A Trip to the North-East of Lake Tiberias, in Jaulan,” respectively, were published before but appear here for the first time in a book form. Gottlieb Schumacher (1857) settled at a very young age with his family in Haifa, where his father, a member of the “Temple Association” designed most of the buildings of the German Colony. Following the completion of his engineering studies in Stuttgart, he returned to Haifa and was appointed Chief Engineer for the Province of Akko. He designed many buildings and was a leading figure in civil engineering. One of his most important projects was the survey of the Golan, Hauran, and the Ajlun districts in preparation for the construction of the Damascus-Haifa railway. In the course of this survey he produced the first accurate maps of these regions, along with detailed descriptions of the archaeological remains and the present villages. He published many other reports and books on his discoveries, supported by the Palestine Exploration Fund. With the outbreak of World War I the Templar community left for Germany. Schumacher returned in 1924 to his home on the Carmel, where he died a year later. Although he was born in Ohio, U.S.A., Gottlieb was brought-up and educated as a German. “I beg to throw myself on the indulgence of my readers for the defects of style,” he once wrote, “for my work has been perforce written in a language which, though familiar to me, is not my own.”
€ 500 --
125 SIMONS, J. The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament: A Concise Commentary in XXXII Chapters. Leiden, Brill, 1959.Quarto. Pp. xiv, 613. Plus 10 maps printed on 14 sheets, mostly folding, loosely inserted in rear pocket as issued, and a key map, all crisp, in a fresh-new condition. Footnotes, index. With numerous words set in Hebrew type explained in the text. Hardcover, original decorated blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Loosely inserted is a quarto Publisher’s prospectus, announcing the publication of this book. Printed by the Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten in July 1957, it also provides much detail about the book “Jerusalem in the Old Testament”, with a full table of contents. Simons published in 1952 “Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories” - also offered by Librarium.
€ 120 --
126 SIMONS, J. Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories. Leiden, Brill, 1952.Quarto. Pp. xvi, 517. Plus 33 plates with many halftone photo illustrations, many of which full-page, and a number of folding illustrations, all printed on different paper, bound in. With numerous (full-page) illustrations and maps to the text. Footnotes, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, original decorated blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. Simons published in 1959 “The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament: A Concise Commentary in XXXII Chapters” - also offered by Librarium.
€ 265 --
127 SIMONS, J. Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories. Leiden, Brill, 1952.Quarto. Pp. xvi, 517. Plus 33 plates with many halftone photo illustrations, many of which full-page, and a number of folding illustrations, all printed on different paper, bound in. With numerous (full-page) illustrations and maps to the text. Footnotes, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, original decorated blue cloth, gilt stamped, spine gilt. Very good copy indeed.
- - First edition. Simons published in 1959 “The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament: A Concise Commentary in XXXII Chapters” - also offered by Librarium.
€ 205 --
128 SIMONS, J. Opgravingen in Palestina: Tot aan de Ballingschap (586 v. Chr.). [Bijbelsche Monographieën]. Roermond-Masseik, J. Romen, 1935.Royal 8vo. Pp. 412. Footnotes, bibliography, indices. Plus folding map and 48 halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With a total of 113 halftone and line-drawn illustrations. Hardcover, half cloth and marbled boards, with original cover and spine laid down. Very good condition. (Small stain to fore-edge of some consecutive leaves, remnants of small label to title-page.) Good, clean copy.
First edition. With a remarkably rich collection of photographs of excavation sites and artifacts.
€ 35
129 SINGER, Curt. Jerusalem: Twelve Drawings. Jerusalem, Heatid, Salingré, 1952.Oblong octavo. A set of 12 plates contained in a card portfolio, lettered and illustrated. Each plate is a tinted line-drawn illustration printed from at least 2 blocks. A list of captions, both in English and Hebrew, identifies the view on each plate. In about fine condition. (Wraps bit age toned). Excellent set.
- - First edition. The quality of the plates is very high. Printed by the students at the Hadassah Apprentice School of Printing in Jerusalem, the quality of the result surpasses that of most more commercially produced similar prints. The dense of the outline ink is remarkable; the tint from the second impression delicate and rich in detail. The portfolio contains views of Jerusalem and environs, 13 at all including the cover illustration. Curt Singer, painter, educated in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris. Born in 1905 in Czechoslovakia he immigrated in 1935 to Israel where he soon establishe himself as a painter. Died in 1989.
€ 95 --
130 SLUIJS, D. E., and Jacob Hoofiën. Handboek voor de Geschiedenis der Joden. Part I: Bijbelsche geschiedenis. Amsterdam, Mesquita, 1870.8vo. Pp. viii, 424, xxvi. Plus lithographed map bound at rear. With one text illustration; footnotes. Numerous words in Hebrew explained in the text. Hardcover, original quarter calf gilt and cloth boards, embossed in gilt. Good. (Part of head of spine missing, tail chipped; corners bent; stains to few leaves.)
First edition. Volume one of three.
€ 30 --
131 SMITH, George Adam. De historische aardrijkskunde van het Heilige Land, inzonderheid in verband met de geschiedenis van Israël en van de oude kerk. Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, 1903.Royal 8vo. Pp. xx, 660. Plus folding colour lithographed map illustrating Old and New Testament history according to Palestine Exploration Survey, loosely inserted at end as issued. Footnotes, appendices, indices. Hardcover, original black cloth. (Spine missing, front flyleaf incised, map repaired on verso.) Internally fine.
Translated from the English.
€ 24 --
132 SODEN, Hermann Freiherr von. Palästina [Palaestina] und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. Leipzig, Teubner, 1899.12mo. Pp. 112. Plus 2 full-page maps printed in colour and one plan of ancient Jerusalem bound at rear; index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original illustrated cloth, publisher’s catalogue on endpapers. In fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 35 --
133 SODEN, Hermann Freiherr von. Palästina [Palaestina] und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. [AND:] Map of Jerusalem (American Colony Store, 1910). Leipzig, Teubner, 1904.12mo. Pp. iv, 112, 32 publisher’s catalogue. Plus one plan of ancient Jerusalem, 6 halftone photographic plates, 2 coloured maps, all printed on different paper bound-in. Printed endpapers, illustrated front paste-down, colour plate pasted onto back paste-down as issued. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original beige cloth, lettered in black. In fine condition.
Second edition. ADDED: Map of Jerusalem. Original letterpress coloured map, issued by Fr. Vester & Co. American Colony Store (ca. 1910). Overall size ca. 28 x 32 cm, image size ca. 25 x 28.5 cm, linen-backed, printed in black, yellow, green, blue, pink, red. Issued for tourists and pilgrims to Jerusalem, it identifies the major sites in the city, the actual excavations of the ancient city wall, as well as the location of the American Colony Store itself. It has been folded to fit inside the book, but otherwise in fine condition.
€ 45 --
134 SODEN, Hermann Freiherr von. Palästina [Palaestina] und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. Leipzig, Teubner, 1918.12mo. Pp. 116, 16. Plus 3 halftone photographic plates, one letterpress plan of ancient Jerusalem, printed on different paper bound. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original decorated boards, publisher’s catalogue on endpapers. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
Fourth edition.
€ 25 --
135 STAPFER, Edmond. La Palestine au temps de Jésus Christ d’après le Nouveau Testament, l’historien Flavius Josèphe et les Talmuds. Paris, Fischbacher, n.d.Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 531. Plus 2 folding tables, 2 plans (one folding), and one folding map of Palestine bound in. Footnotes, extended concordance, index. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettered and ruled, abrasion mark to upper cover; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In a very good condition (old private ownership stamp). Nice copy.
- - Eighth, revised and corrected edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 75 --
136 THEILHABER, Felix A. Im Kampf um Gott, Volk und Land: Geschichte der Juden in Erez Israel von 1300 v. Chr. - 300 n. Chr. [Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes]. Berlin, Kedem, 1936.Royal octavo. Pp. 197. Plus one letterpress map bound at rear. Hardcover, original buckram, printed in brown. In a very good condition indeed.
- - First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down.
€ 75 --
137 TICHELEN, Th. van. Land en Volk in Palestina. [BOUND WITH:] Jaarboek van het Davidsfonds voor 1910. Brugge, Houdmont-Carbonez, 1909.Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. Pp. viii, 192; title, 284. Frontispiece, portrait plates, tail-pieces. Hardcover, contemporary three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, with 2 contrasting morocco labels to spine, lettered in gilt. Good condition. (Old institutional bookplate and stamp; prelims heavily spotted, scattered spotting to some leaves; one leaf stained.) Else a good copy in handsome binding.
First edition.
€ 55 --
138 TOBLER, Titus. Zwei Bücher Topographie von Jerusalem und seinen Umgebungen. Erstes Buch: Die heilige Stadt. Berlin, Reimer, 1853.12mo. Pp. cvi, 677. Plus two folding- and two single-page lithographic plates bound in. Some text illustrations; tables, footnotes, index, corrections. Hardcover, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt with shelf label, delicate splits to cloth on joints. All edges sprinkled. In good condition (old institutional bookplate and stamps, paper repairs to gutters of few leaves, scattered spotting throughout).
First edition. Tobler, 158.
€ 275 --
139 TOBLER, Titus (Editor). Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae. Ex saeculo VIII, IX, XII et XV. S. Willibaldus. Commemoratorium de casis Dei. Bernardus Monachus. Innominatus VII. Johannes Wirziburgensis. Innominatus VIII. La Citez de Iherusalem. Johannes Poloner. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1874.Octavo. Pp. 539, (1) errata. Plus fold-out lithograph map “Tabula geographica Marini Sanuti” bound at end. Hardcover, bound in contemporary diaper-grain half cloth and marbled boards, spine with decorated gilt morocco label and two small round paper labels, one rubbed and partly removed, old institutional bookplate and stamps to front paste-down, some annotations in very neat contemporary hand to title page and elsewhere, some browning and spotting. In about fine condition. A very nice set, very well preserved.
- - First edition. In this book Tobler studies, edits, and prepares for publication an 8th-century manuscript by S. Willibaldus; the 9th-century Commemoratorium de casis Dei, and a manuscript by Bernardus Monachus; the 12th-century Innominatus VII and VIII, a manuscript by Johannes Wirziburgensis, and the La Citez de Iherusalem; and a 15th-century manuscript by Johannes Poloner. They are published here in the original Latin. The second part of the book is Tobler’s commentary, in German. Born in 1806, Tobler studied medicine in Zurich, Vienna, and Paris. Worked as a practising physician. In 1835 he visited Palestine for the first time, and published his travelogue in “Lustreise in Morgenland”. In 1845, 1857 and 1865 made further journeys to Palestine. Beside his own travelogues he edited older travel descriptions of Palestine and published a bibliography of the Palestine literature. He died in 1877. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 580 --
140 TUCHMAN, Barbara W. Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. London, Redman, 1957.8vo. Pp. xiv, 268. Plus a number of halftone illustrations and maps, printed in tinted ink on different paper, bound in. Bibliography, notes, index. Hardcover, original dark tan cloth, spine lettered in black, with dust-jacket (this good; small chips, nicks). Book is in fine condition. Excellent copy.
First British edition.
€ 38 --
141 VILLEFOSSE, Héron de. Notice des monuments provenant de la Palestine et Conservés au Musée du Louvre (Salle Judaïque). Paris, Charles de Mourgues Fréres, 1879.12mo. Pp. viii, 62. Plus a folding (helio)gravure plate, “Stèle de Mésa”, printed on laid paper. With some text in Hebrew. Original yellow wrappers (bit dusty, sunned). In a very good condition. Overall a well preserved copy, crisp plate.
- - Second edition.
€ 45 --
142 VILNAY, Zev. The Holy Land in Old Prints and Maps. Jerusalem, Mass, 1963.Royal quarto. Pp. xl, 220. Profusely illustrated throughout. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original red cloth gilt, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (this very good, with small imperfections, nicks.). In fine condition. Excellent fresh copy.
First edition of this important manual.
€ 135 --
143 WATSON, C. M. Illustrated by Geneviève Watson. The Story of Jerusalem. [Mediaeval Towns Series]. London, Dent, 1929.Small octavo. Pp. xx, 339. (Helio)gravure frontispiece protected by a tissue guard. Plus folding plan of Jerusalem bound at rear. With numerous pen-and-ink illustrations, some full-page; index. Title printed in black and red, with a large letterpress device. Hardcover, original decorated pale blue cloth, spine decorated gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - The story and history of Jerusalem from the earliest time, lovingly illustrated.
€ 70 --
144 WATZINGER, Carl. Denkmäler Palästinas [Palaestinas]: Eine Einführung in die Archäologie des Heiligen Landes. Volume I: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der Israelitischen Königszeit. Volume II: Von der Herrschaft der Assyrer bis zur Arabischen Eroberung. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1933-35.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. Volume I: map frontispiece, viii, 118 plus 40 plates with 88 illustrations printed on different paper bound at rear, 10 illustrations to the text. Volume II: vii, 170 plus 40 plates with 82 illustrations printed on different paper bound at rear, 15 illustrations to the text. Footnotes, index. Original green wrappers, lettered in brown. Very good condition (wraps bit rubbed and slightly creased, spines faded; Vol. I with few pencil markings, ink stain just touching the fore-edge of some leaves, signature clipped-out from frontispiece). Overall good copies, with fresh sets of illustrations.
- - First edition. Watzinger’s classic introduction to the archaeology of Palestine. With a remarkable collection of photographs, line drawings, plans, scale drawings, excavation sites and artifacts.
€ 85 --
145 WILSON, Charles W. (Editor). Assisted by the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers, Etc. Picturesque Palestine, in Three Volumes. Volumes I-III [COMPLETE]. London, Virtue, (1889).Three volume set. Complete. Royal quarto (32 x 27 cm). Pp. x, 240 plus 10 steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 12 steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 11 steel-engraved plates and a double-page engraved map of Palestine, printed in orange and blue, with inset plan of Jerusalem. The total number of 33 plates includes four different steel-engraved frontispieces and four different, large steel-engraved title vignette, all printed on heavy paper bound-in, with tissue-guards. The three volumes are illustrated with a total of 429 wood-engraved illustrations, many of which are full-page, all with explanatory captions. Index to each volume. Titles printed in red and black. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s richly decorated green cloth, gilt panelled and lettered, spine gilt, bevelled boards, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. In about fine condition (occasionally some spotting; slight wear to spine ends.) A very handsome set, very well preserved.
- - Second edition, published in three volumes. It does not differ from the first edition, in four volumes, which was published in 1881. The publisher, James Virtue, seeking new marketing opportunities, substitute the line “In Four Volumes” with “In Three Volumes” and did not reissue the fourth volume, devoted to Egypt and Palestine. Other editions followed suit. Appleton of New York has published a two-volume version, rather crowded in comparison with the original, and indeed one that could not match the exceptionally fine, two large folios of the German edition that was published in 1833 under the direction of Georg Ebers and Hermann Guthe. Although it is Wilson who receives all the credit for this monumental work, it is the contribution of the authors whose work he edited that makes this three-volume opus 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 between image and word. The superb steel engraved plates are printed here with fine, crisp detail, subtlety and elegance. Noteworthy are the artists 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 to the United States where he has achieved great success as an illustrator of books, was one of the founders of the American Watercolor Society, and has been one of its exhibitors nearly every year since its organization. Some of his best work is contained in “Picturesque America,” “Picturesque Europe,” and “Picturesque Palestine”. A keen traveller, Fenn has travelled extensively through the United States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and the Sinai Peninsula. Other artists include C. Werner and H. A. Harper. The engravings were executed by numerous outstanding craftsmen, noteworthy among them are C. Bertrand and E. Brandard. The numerous lovely and lively wood-engraved illustrations complete this celebration of word and image. A fine set. [Total weight: 10 kg. Extra postage is required for all destinations].
€ 925 --
146 YEIVIN, Sh. The Israelite Conquest of Canaan. Istanbul, Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut, 1971.Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 301. Plus 13 maps, some of which folding, printed on card, loosely inserted in rear pocket as issued. Six halftone illustrations on two plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Three full-page maps to the text. Tables; footnotes, appendices, indices. Original pale yellow printed wrappers. In fine condition, practically unused. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 65 --
147 ZADEK, Walter. Hanno Loewy (Editor). Kein Utopia: Araber, Juden, Engländer in Palästina [Palaestina]: Fotografien aus den Jahren 1935 bis 1941. Berlin, Nishen, 1986.8vo. Pp. 156, (2) publisher’s ads. Text set in two columns. Photographic album with numerous halftone photographic plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Very good condition.
First edition. A fascinating essay in photographs, documenting life in Palestine, with emphasis on early Jewish and Zionist establishment.
€ 20 --
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