"Palästina in Bild und Wort" – Comprehensive Study of Eretz Israel – Engravings
Palästina in Bild und Wort, Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen [Palestine in Pictures and Words, including Sinai and the Land of Goshen (Egypt)]. by Georg Ebers and Hermann Guthe. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags anshalt, 1883-1884. Two volumes. German. Copies of the author Ben Zion Luria with his Prominent stamp (Luria, a scholar of the Land of Israel and the Bible and one of the first map drawers in Israel). German.
A German edition of the book "Picturesque Palestine", first published in English in 1880, edited by Charles Wilson. A detailed guide to Eretz Israel, composed by several experts. Accompanied by numerous illustrations within the text of the views of Eretz Israel, inhabitants' garments, customs and more, as well as 40 plates of engravings.
First volume: VIII, 520 pp +[22] plates. Second volume: VI, 474 pp +[18] plates. 38.5 cm. Original oval bindings with gilt inscription and embossed gilt decorations. Gilt leaf cutting. Two maps (out of three) are missing. to the two volumes lacking spins. Loose bindings. And some have detached pages. Stains on the title page of the second part. slight folds at the edges of some of the first and last pages of volumes. moderate condition.
