Palaestina ex Monumentis veteribus Illustrata, Tomus I-III, Hadriani Relandi. Utrecht, 1714. Latin, with some Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. Two Volumes. First edition.
Comprehensive study of the geography of Eretz Israel, accompanied by fifteen engraving-plates (folded): illustrated title page, maps of Eretz Israel, author's portrait, chronological charts, and more. [5] leaves, 511 pp + [15] plates; [3], 516-1068, [94] pp, 20 cm. Original fine leather bindings. Front binding of the first volume is detached. Tears to two of the (folded) maps.

Souvenirs de Levant [Souvenirs from the Levant] edited by M.W. Shapira [Moses Wilhelm Shapira] and C.F. Spittler Jerusalem, [ca. 1870s.].
Souvenir for tourists, made by Moses Wilhelm Shapira, collector and antiquities dealer who lived in Jerusalem in the second half of the 19th century and became famous as a forger of antiquities.
A small box in the shape of a medal, within which a booklet is folded as an accordion, with twenty prints of illustrations – figures from the Levant. Diameter of box: approx. 4.5 cm. Good condition. Slightly damaged (mainly box).
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.

Souvenir von Jerusalem. Jerusalem: A. Zweibner & J. Goldberg, [late 19th century, after 1895]. Hebrew, Russian, English, German, French.
Album with a folded illustrations-plate, in hard-cover: "Jerusalem the Holy City and the holy towns and all the holy places and the colonies established by the generous Baron von Rothschild and Hovevei Zion" (Hebrew). Numerous pictures of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jaffa, Bethlehem, Safed and the colonies. Illustrations were drawn after photographs attributed to the artist Meir Rozin. [14] illustrations-plates printed on one folded sheet, in hard-cover, 19 cm. Good condition. Slight damages. Tears to folding marks between the plates. Damages to binding. Dedication on inner side of back cover.
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.

1. Al Shoshanim, Miyerushalayim Lebaneha, Shirei Yedidut (on Roses, from Jerusalem to its sons, songs of friendship). Z. [Ze'ev] Yavetz, Jerusalem, [1890s].
Small album with heavy cardboard leaves. Printed texts (mainly from Psalms and Prophets but also songs by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi) appear on one side of the leaves. Pressed flowers, are artistically pasted on the reverse, (accompanied by titles in Hebrew and German). An additional title page in German followed by a short poem by Heinrich Heine. [14] leaves, 15.5X10.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears to cover. Stains. Filing holes. Worming on one leaf.
2. Pirchei Eretz HaKedosha [Flowers from the Holy Land], natural flowers from the holiest sites in the land of our fathers. Accompanied by history of the sites…composed by Avraham Moshe Lunz. [A.M. Lunz printing press], Jerusalem [ca. 1896].
Album with pressed flowers, featuring texts in Hebrew and German about the sites where the flowers were gathered. Bound in a nice olive wood binding inscribed “Yerushalem (Hebrew) Jerusalem”, surrounded by a frame inlaid with pieces of wood in different colors. [14] leaves, album: 16X10 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damages to binding.
From the collection of Dr Simon Cohen.