Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Collection of Travelogues to Palestine – The 19th Century and 20th Century – Prints and Maps
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Collection of travelogues and research books dealing with Palestine and its surroundings. 19th century and 20th century.
1-3. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea, by E. Robinson and E. Smith. London: John Murray, 1841. English. Three volumes.
Vol. I: xxviii, 571 pp. + [3] folding maps. Vol. II: [3], vi-xvi, 679 pp. + [1] folding map (hand-colored). Volume III: xi, 475, [1], 248 pp. [1] folding map (hand-colored). 20 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to spines. Ex-library copy, with library stamps to maps. Tear to title page and a single open tear to corner of one leaf of vol. II. Some stains. Stains and small tears to maps, some reinforced with paper.
4. Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions, by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and others. London: John Murray, 1856. English.
[1] f., xxx, 664 pp. + [2] folding maps, 20 cm. Good condition. The maps are linen-backed. Blemishes to binding. Minor blemishes to edges of some leaves. Few stains. Some negligible open tears.
5. Eothen. [Eothen, or, Traces of travel brought home from the East, Travelogue by Alexander William Kinglake]. London: John Ollivier, 1845. Fourth edition. English.
XI, 423 pp. + [2] lithographic plates, 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to edges of leaves. Many stains to lithographs. Loose gatherings. Blemishes to binding and spine. Spine detached at one hinge. Open tears to spine.
6. Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled, by M. Wolcott Redding. New York: Redding & Co., 1873. English.
Containing 65 wood-engraved plates, two chromolithographic plates and a folding map of Jerusalem (most of the plates are included in the consecutive pagination; some of them folding).
XII, [1], 14-421 pp. + [1] folding map of Jerusalem, [1] frontispiece chromolithographic plate and [5] wood-engraved plates (the other plates are included in the consecutive pagination), 22.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to binding. Map detached. Tears to map, some reinforced on verso with tape.
7. Lands of the Bible, a geographical and topographical description of Palestine with letters of travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor and Greece, by J. W. McGarvey. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. English.
624 pp. + [38] wood-engraved plates, 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to binding.
8. With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem, by Stephen Graham. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. English.
Accompanied by photographs and a map depicting the route of the Russian pilgrims to sacred sites in Palestine.
X, 306 pp. + [38] plates (reproduced photographs), [1] map, 22 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Stains, mostly not affecting the photographs. Blemishes to binding.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1-3. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea, by E. Robinson and E. Smith. London: John Murray, 1841. English. Three volumes.
Vol. I: xxviii, 571 pp. + [3] folding maps. Vol. II: [3], vi-xvi, 679 pp. + [1] folding map (hand-colored). Volume III: xi, 475, [1], 248 pp. [1] folding map (hand-colored). 20 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to spines. Ex-library copy, with library stamps to maps. Tear to title page and a single open tear to corner of one leaf of vol. II. Some stains. Stains and small tears to maps, some reinforced with paper.
4. Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions, by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and others. London: John Murray, 1856. English.
[1] f., xxx, 664 pp. + [2] folding maps, 20 cm. Good condition. The maps are linen-backed. Blemishes to binding. Minor blemishes to edges of some leaves. Few stains. Some negligible open tears.
5. Eothen. [Eothen, or, Traces of travel brought home from the East, Travelogue by Alexander William Kinglake]. London: John Ollivier, 1845. Fourth edition. English.
XI, 423 pp. + [2] lithographic plates, 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to edges of leaves. Many stains to lithographs. Loose gatherings. Blemishes to binding and spine. Spine detached at one hinge. Open tears to spine.
6. Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled, by M. Wolcott Redding. New York: Redding & Co., 1873. English.
Containing 65 wood-engraved plates, two chromolithographic plates and a folding map of Jerusalem (most of the plates are included in the consecutive pagination; some of them folding).
XII, [1], 14-421 pp. + [1] folding map of Jerusalem, [1] frontispiece chromolithographic plate and [5] wood-engraved plates (the other plates are included in the consecutive pagination), 22.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to binding. Map detached. Tears to map, some reinforced on verso with tape.
7. Lands of the Bible, a geographical and topographical description of Palestine with letters of travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor and Greece, by J. W. McGarvey. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. English.
624 pp. + [38] wood-engraved plates, 22.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Blemishes to binding.
8. With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem, by Stephen Graham. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. English.
Accompanied by photographs and a map depicting the route of the Russian pilgrims to sacred sites in Palestine.
X, 306 pp. + [38] plates (reproduced photographs), [1] map, 22 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Stains, mostly not affecting the photographs. Blemishes to binding.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Grammar Books, Theology, Bibles, Travelogues, Prints and Maps
Grammar Books, Theology, Bibles, Travelogues, Prints and Maps