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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
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Hadrian Reland. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata.
Title printed in red and black with engraved device, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved allegorical title. 6 engraved foldouts, including several maps, a genealogical tree of Herod; 6 plates (maps) and several numismatic text illustrations. Some applied color. pp. (18), 787, (83) pages. Stamp on title-page. Contemporary vellum. Thick 4to.
Peter Conrad Monath, Nuremberg: 1716.
The Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was the first scholar to away from the traditional cartographic view of the Holy Land that was based upon the Bible, thus producing here the first geographically accurate maps of the Land of Israel and surrounding region.
