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Palästina in Bild und Wort – German Edition of "Picturesque Palestine" – Extensive Research on Palestine – Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1883-1884
Palästina in Bild und Wort, Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen [Palestine in Picture and Word. Including the Sinai Peninsula and The Land of Goshen (Egypt)], edited based on the English edition by Georg Ebers and Hermann Guthe. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [ca. 1883-1884]. Two volumes (complete set). German.
A German edition of the book Picturesque Palestine (New York and London, 1881-1884), edited by Egyptologist and novelist George Ebers and scholar Hermann Guthe.
A comprehensive collection of articles about the history, geography and archeology of Palestine and its surroundings, and about the Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of the area, written by renowned British scholars (such as Charles Wilson, Henry Baker Tristram, Charles Warren and others). The articles are accompanied by two (steel) engraved plates, three large color maps (a map of Jerusalem, a map of Palestine and a map of Sinai and Egypt) and more than 500 in-text illustrations (wood engravings). The engraved plates, depicting the views and inhabitants of Palestine and its surroundings, were made after works by Harry Fenn and John Douglas Woodward.
Fine, gilt-decorated bindings. Gilt edges.
Vol. I: VIII, 520 pp. + [1] engraved plate and [2] double-page maps; Vol. II: VI, 474 pp. + [1] engraved plate and [1] double-page map. 37.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, mainly on the two steel engraved plates. Open tear to edge of one leaf in second volume (repaired with paper; not affecting text). Wear and small tears to bindings, mainly to extremities and spines.
