Viaggio da Venetia al Santo Sepolcro et al Monte Sinai ["Journey from Venice to the Holy Sepulcher and Mount Sinai"]. Noe Bianco, unidentified edition, [Italy, late 17th cent.?]. Italian.Journey of Noe Bianco through Italy, Eretz Israel and the vicinity. Within the text appear more than one hundred illustrations (woodcuts), most of which depict towns and ports as well as various pilgrimage sites in Eretz Israel. Illustrations include views of Venice, Corfu, Jaffa, Ramla, Jerusalem, Solomon's Temple, Rachel's Tomb, Bethesda Pool, and illustrations of Noah’s Ark, Tower of Babel, Cain and Abel, etc.
The Franciscan monk Noe Bianco started his journey in Venice in 1527, went through the Greek Islands and the Aegean Islands, and arrived in Eretz Israel and visited Jerusalem and the holy sites in the vicinity. This book, documenting the journey, was first published in 1566, and additional editions were published during the 16th-18th centuries.
192 pages, title page is missing. 15.5 cm. Good condition. Spotting. Several torn leaves, restored. Fine leather binding, somewhat damaged.
From the collection of Teddy and Tamar Kollek.

Four exploration and research books. London, 1849-1878. English.
1. The Narrative of the United States Expedition of the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. By W.F. Lynch. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Study expedition of William Francis Lynch to Jordan and the Dead Sea. Accompanied by 28 plates – illustrations of views, sites and local figures – as well as two folded maps: map of the Jordan River (torn) and map of the Dead Sea.
William Francis Lynch, an American Navy officer, went in 1847 with a study expedition to Jordan and the Dead Sea. This was the first expedition that studied the southern part of the Dead Sea and Lynch was the first who drew an accurate and detailed map of the Dead Sea and Jordan. XX, 13-508 pp + [28] plates + [2] maps. 23 cm.
2. Jerusalem Revisited by W. H. Bartlett. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1855.
Study of Jerusalem. Accompanied by 20 illustrations and a folded panorama of Jerusalem. VIII, [2], 202,[18] pp + [21] plates. 26 cm.
3."Underground Jerusalem, an account of some of the principal difficulties encountered in its exploration and the results obtained. With a narrative of an expedition through the Jordan Valley and a visit to the Samaritans, "by Charles Warren. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1876.
"Underground Jerusalem" by Charles Warren, British officer of the Combat Engineering Forces. Warren was sent in 1867 to Eretz Israel by the British Fund for the Exploration of Eretz Israel and was one of the first archaeologists to study the country and mainly Jerusalem. The book is accompanied by nine plates (one plate is missing) – drawings, sketches and two photos (group photo of Ashkenazi Jews and a photo of Samaritans praying on Mount Gerizim). One folded plate – plan of the Temple Mount. XX, 559 pp + [9] plates (one missing plate), 22 cm.
4. The Late Dr. Charles Beke's Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. London: Trubner & Co, 1878. Expedition of Charles Beke – an expedition trying to discover the exact location of Mount Sinai. With 15 illustration plates, a plate with Beke’s portrait and a folded map (torn) of Egypt and Sinai. XVIII, [1], 606 pp + [16] plates + map. 25 cm.
Condition varies.
From the collection of Teddy and Tamar Kollek.

Samuelis Bocharti Opera Omnia, Hoc Est Phaleg, Canaan, Et Hierozoicon. Works of Samuel Bochart. Leiden: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Jordanum Luchtmans. Lugduni Batavorum, 1692. Latin, some Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
Particularly thick volume, consisting of two of the most important studies by the French theologist Samuel Bochart:
• A study of the geography of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin, accompanied by thirteen maps (engravings) with Hebrew inscriptions, some maps are double-spread, including maps of: Paradise, Middle East, Syria and Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mediterranean basin lands, Greece, islands of Kos and Chios, Italy and Africa, Sicily, Spain, and more; an additional engraving – author's portrait.
• Hierozoicon, sive bipertitum opus de animalibus S. Scripturae. Two volumes (separate title pages). A comprehensive encyclopedic study of the animals in the Middle East, based on the bible and the holy scriptures. Several illustrations within the text.
A title page (engraving) opens the volume – illustration of Adam in Paradise, naming the animals (above them – a biblical figure on the background of the Tower of Babel).
[14] pp, 1312 columns, [60]; [6] pp, 1094 columns, 91 pp, [2] pp, 888 columns, 79 pp. 38 cm. Original parchment binding. Good condition. Damages to binding. Spotting.

Two copies of a map of Jerusalem - Iervsalem, et Suburbia Eius [Jerusalem and its suburbs] by Christian Van Adrichom, hand colored etching and engraving (differences in coloring between the maps). Cologne, [ca.1590].
Drawn by Dutch cartographer Christian Van Adrichom (1533-1585). Each map consists of two sheets. Illustrations of various sites as well as events depicted in the Bible and the New Testament are scattered on the map, drawn meticulously.
73X48 cm. Good condition. Framed.
From the collection of Teddy and Tamar Kollek.

Ierusalem Hodierna, drawn by Georg Balthasar Probst. [Augsburg, ca. 1750].
Panoramic map which consists of two sheets of paper, portraying Jerusalem at the beginning of the 18th century, with 80 waypoints (in German).
38X110 cm. Fair-good condition. Several (restored) holes, spots. Framed.
From the collection of Teddy and Tamar Kollek.