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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). RELAND, HADRIAN. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices, additional engraved allegorical title. 13 engraved plates of which 5 are fold-outs, including many maps and a genealogical tree of Herod, letter-press chart and numismatic illustrations in the text. Vol. I: pp. (10), 391, (1). * Vol. II: pp. (4), 396-511, (4), 516-1068, (94). Lightly discolored. Contemporary full vellum, rubbed. Thick 4to. Blackmer 1406; Laor 643-53. Utrecht, William Broedelet, 1714.     The Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was the first scholar to break away from the traditional cartographic view of the Holy Land based upon the Bible. He produced here T HE FIRST GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE MAPS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL and surrounding region.