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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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19 maps of the Middle East, Turkey and Palestine (most of them partly hand-colored), engravings from atlases, travelogues and other works. [Europe, the 18th- 19th centuries].
Including:
• "Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse," an engraved map of the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, and Persia, by Guillaume Delisle (Paris, 1701).
• "Das Mittellaendische Meer Zu Bequaemen Gebrauch In Einer General Carten vorgestellet", map of the Middle East, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Curieux" by Gabriel Bodenehr (Augsburg, 1716).
• "Nuova Carta di Irak Arabi, Kurdistan Dirbek Turcomannia Siria e Palestina", map of the Middle East and Palestine, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlante novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo" (Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1740).
• "Imperium Arabicum, Saracenicum, Muhamedicum Primarium pro statu ante divisionem quadripartitam", map of the Arab Empire (hand-colored engraving), by Johann Matthias Hase (Nürnberg, ca. mid-18th century).
• "Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe Persique", map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Encyclopedique" by Rigobert Bonne (Paris, 1788).
• "La Turchia d'Asia, Che comprende l'Anatolia, la Giorgia, l'Armenia, il Curdistan, il Diarbec, l'Irak-Arabia, la Siria &c", map of Turkey and neighboring countries, hand-colored engraving (Venice: Antonio Zatta, e Figli, 1784).
• "Tableau de la dispersion des peuples jusqu'au temps de Moïse", map of the Mediterranean Basin, hand-colored engraving, by Adrien Hubert Brué (1821).
• "Mittel- und Nord-Africa und Arabien. Östliches Blatt", map of central-north Africa and Arabia (hand-colored engraving), by Adolf Stieler (Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes, 1830).
• And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Including:
• "Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse," an engraved map of the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, and Persia, by Guillaume Delisle (Paris, 1701).
• "Das Mittellaendische Meer Zu Bequaemen Gebrauch In Einer General Carten vorgestellet", map of the Middle East, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Curieux" by Gabriel Bodenehr (Augsburg, 1716).
• "Nuova Carta di Irak Arabi, Kurdistan Dirbek Turcomannia Siria e Palestina", map of the Middle East and Palestine, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlante novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo" (Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1740).
• "Imperium Arabicum, Saracenicum, Muhamedicum Primarium pro statu ante divisionem quadripartitam", map of the Arab Empire (hand-colored engraving), by Johann Matthias Hase (Nürnberg, ca. mid-18th century).
• "Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe Persique", map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Encyclopedique" by Rigobert Bonne (Paris, 1788).
• "La Turchia d'Asia, Che comprende l'Anatolia, la Giorgia, l'Armenia, il Curdistan, il Diarbec, l'Irak-Arabia, la Siria &c", map of Turkey and neighboring countries, hand-colored engraving (Venice: Antonio Zatta, e Figli, 1784).
• "Tableau de la dispersion des peuples jusqu'au temps de Moïse", map of the Mediterranean Basin, hand-colored engraving, by Adrien Hubert Brué (1821).
• "Mittel- und Nord-Africa und Arabien. Östliches Blatt", map of central-north Africa and Arabia (hand-colored engraving), by Adolf Stieler (Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes, 1830).
• And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
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Nine maps of Egypt and the Middle East – engravings from atlases, travelogues and other works. [Europe, 18th-19th centuries (one earlier map, from the 16th century)].
1. "Egitto Nvova tavola", map of Egypt and the Nile. Engraving from "La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino". [Venice, 1574].
2. "Le cours entier du grand et fameux Nil, appellé la rivièr de l'Egypte dans l'Ecriture sainte avec la Basse et la Haute Egypte, par où il passe", map of the Nile and modern Egypt, by Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777). Hand-colored engraving. Augsburg, [1735].
3. "Carte de L' Egypte et de La Libye", map of Egypt and Libya by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782). Hand-colored engraving. [Paris], 1738.
4. "Carte de la coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse", map of the Middle East, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Hand-colored engraving from "Histoire Générale des Voyages" by Antoine François Prévost. [Paris], 1740.
5. "Carta nuova dell' Arabia fatta in Amsterdam per Isauc Tirion", map of the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and its vicinity, by Giambattista Albrizzi (1698-1777). Engraving, presumably from one of the editions of "Lo stato presente di tutti i paesi" by Thomas Salmon. [Venice?, ca. mid-18th century].
6. "Tabula Aegypti Antiquae", map of ancient Egypt, by Rigobert Bonne. Engraving. Paris, 1783.
7. "Egypt, Called in the language of the Country Missir", map of Egypt, engraving after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. London, 1788.
8. "Tabula itineraria a Sues usque ad Dsjäbbel El Mokátteb et Montem Sinai", map of the Gulf of Suez. Hand-colored engraving from one of the editions of "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien" by Carsten Niebuhr. [Copenhagen, ca. late 18th century]. Laor 534a.
9. "Aegypti Delta et Nili Ostia", map of Egypt and the Delta of the Nile. Engraving from "Geographia Antiqua, Being a Complete Set of Maps Of Antient Geography" by Christoph Cellarius. [London, 1817].
Size and condition varies.
1. "Egitto Nvova tavola", map of Egypt and the Nile. Engraving from "La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino". [Venice, 1574].
2. "Le cours entier du grand et fameux Nil, appellé la rivièr de l'Egypte dans l'Ecriture sainte avec la Basse et la Haute Egypte, par où il passe", map of the Nile and modern Egypt, by Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777). Hand-colored engraving. Augsburg, [1735].
3. "Carte de L' Egypte et de La Libye", map of Egypt and Libya by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782). Hand-colored engraving. [Paris], 1738.
4. "Carte de la coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse", map of the Middle East, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Hand-colored engraving from "Histoire Générale des Voyages" by Antoine François Prévost. [Paris], 1740.
5. "Carta nuova dell' Arabia fatta in Amsterdam per Isauc Tirion", map of the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and its vicinity, by Giambattista Albrizzi (1698-1777). Engraving, presumably from one of the editions of "Lo stato presente di tutti i paesi" by Thomas Salmon. [Venice?, ca. mid-18th century].
6. "Tabula Aegypti Antiquae", map of ancient Egypt, by Rigobert Bonne. Engraving. Paris, 1783.
7. "Egypt, Called in the language of the Country Missir", map of Egypt, engraving after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. London, 1788.
8. "Tabula itineraria a Sues usque ad Dsjäbbel El Mokátteb et Montem Sinai", map of the Gulf of Suez. Hand-colored engraving from one of the editions of "Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien" by Carsten Niebuhr. [Copenhagen, ca. late 18th century]. Laor 534a.
9. "Aegypti Delta et Nili Ostia", map of Egypt and the Delta of the Nile. Engraving from "Geographia Antiqua, Being a Complete Set of Maps Of Antient Geography" by Christoph Cellarius. [London, 1817].
Size and condition varies.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Sold for: $275
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Eleven modern maps of Palestine, most of them from the British Mandate period. Palestine and Europe, late 19th century to mid-20th century.
1-4. Four maps by cartographer John Bartholomew (presumably, from the atlas "The Historical Geography of the Holy Land" by George Adam Smith): General map of Palestine; The Jezreel Valley and Lower Galilee; Samaria; Judea, the Shfela and Philistia (numbered I, IV, V, VI). London: Hodder and Stoughton and The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, [late 19th century or early 20th century]. English.
5. "Palestine, compiled after the Fischer and Guthe map by Yeshayahu Press and David Yellin, Jerusalem". Published by M. Dizengoff and B. Yaffe in Jaffa and "Jüdischer Verlag" in Berlin. [1920s].
6. "Excursion Map of Jerusalem and Middle Judaea / Jerusalem", double-sided map published by the Jerusalem YMCA: on one side, a color map of Jerusalem (in an ornamental frame) and on the other side, a map of trails and roads in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
Printing details on margins: Jerusalem Y.M.C.A., Blocks by A. Soskin, Syrian Orphanage Press, Jerusalem. [ca.1930s]. English.
7-9. "Palestine Survey Topographical Map", three maps published by the Survey of Palestine: Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem (numbered 1, 7 and 8; of a series of 14 maps covering the entire area of Palestine). Compiled, drawn and printed under the direction of Frederick John Salmon, head of the Survey in the years 1933-1938. Folded to form a booklet (illustrations on covers). [Palestine, 1930s]. English.
10. "The Jewish Chronicle Map of Palestine, produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, F.R.G.S", map of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine published by the Jewish Chronicle. Folded to form a booklet. On the cover, a small map of the Partition Plan. London, 1948.
11. "Emek Zevulun, Lands of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael ltd. and the Bayside Land Corporation ltd" / Drawn by Z. Friedlander, J. Lev & E. Ladny. 1946. English and Hebrew.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. Closed and open tears along edges and fold lines (some of them restored and reinforced with tape; mostly small). Handwritten inscriptions on two maps.
1-4. Four maps by cartographer John Bartholomew (presumably, from the atlas "The Historical Geography of the Holy Land" by George Adam Smith): General map of Palestine; The Jezreel Valley and Lower Galilee; Samaria; Judea, the Shfela and Philistia (numbered I, IV, V, VI). London: Hodder and Stoughton and The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, [late 19th century or early 20th century]. English.
5. "Palestine, compiled after the Fischer and Guthe map by Yeshayahu Press and David Yellin, Jerusalem". Published by M. Dizengoff and B. Yaffe in Jaffa and "Jüdischer Verlag" in Berlin. [1920s].
6. "Excursion Map of Jerusalem and Middle Judaea / Jerusalem", double-sided map published by the Jerusalem YMCA: on one side, a color map of Jerusalem (in an ornamental frame) and on the other side, a map of trails and roads in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
Printing details on margins: Jerusalem Y.M.C.A., Blocks by A. Soskin, Syrian Orphanage Press, Jerusalem. [ca.1930s]. English.
7-9. "Palestine Survey Topographical Map", three maps published by the Survey of Palestine: Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem (numbered 1, 7 and 8; of a series of 14 maps covering the entire area of Palestine). Compiled, drawn and printed under the direction of Frederick John Salmon, head of the Survey in the years 1933-1938. Folded to form a booklet (illustrations on covers). [Palestine, 1930s]. English.
10. "The Jewish Chronicle Map of Palestine, produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, F.R.G.S", map of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine published by the Jewish Chronicle. Folded to form a booklet. On the cover, a small map of the Partition Plan. London, 1948.
11. "Emek Zevulun, Lands of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael ltd. and the Bayside Land Corporation ltd" / Drawn by Z. Friedlander, J. Lev & E. Ladny. 1946. English and Hebrew.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. Closed and open tears along edges and fold lines (some of them restored and reinforced with tape; mostly small). Handwritten inscriptions on two maps.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Voyage par l'Italie, en Egypte au Mont-Liban et en Palestine ou Terre Sainte [A Journey Through Italy, to Egypt, to Mount Lebanon and Palestine or the Holy land], [by Marie Dominique de Binos]. Paris: Briand & Letellier, [1798/1799] (on the title page: "An VII"). French. Two volumes.
Impressions from a journey of the French clergyman Marie Dominique de Binos (1730-1803) to the Middle East. De Binos started out on his Journey from France in 1766, travelled through Italy and from there continued to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. In 1779, he returned to France via Cyprus. The book contains twelve engraves plates depicting the residents of the various areas he had visited and their traditional costumes. One of the engravings depicts a woman from Jerusalem.
Volume I: [2] ff, 301, [3] pp + [6] plates (bluish paper). Volume II: [2] ff, 367, [1] pp + [6] plates (bluish paper). 17 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Inked notation on the back free endpaper of the first volume. The front free endpaper of the second volume is partly detached. Leather-covered bindings, with gilt impressions, slightly damaged (with rubbings and small tears). Spines detached.
Impressions from a journey of the French clergyman Marie Dominique de Binos (1730-1803) to the Middle East. De Binos started out on his Journey from France in 1766, travelled through Italy and from there continued to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. In 1779, he returned to France via Cyprus. The book contains twelve engraves plates depicting the residents of the various areas he had visited and their traditional costumes. One of the engravings depicts a woman from Jerusalem.
Volume I: [2] ff, 301, [3] pp + [6] plates (bluish paper). Volume II: [2] ff, 367, [1] pp + [6] plates (bluish paper). 17 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Inked notation on the back free endpaper of the first volume. The front free endpaper of the second volume is partly detached. Leather-covered bindings, with gilt impressions, slightly damaged (with rubbings and small tears). Spines detached.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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The World in Miniature, Turkey, being a description of the manners, customs, dresses, and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of the Turkish Empire, edited by Frederic Shoberl. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, [ca. 1821]. Six parts in three volumes. English.
The books in the series "The World in Miniature" focused on different countries throughout the world, and were accompanied by numerous engravings. The present item contains the series' six parts on the history of the Ottoman Empire, the life of its citizens, their dress and their customs, with 73 hand-colored engravings presenting upwards of 150 costumes. One engraving shows a Jewish resident of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the engravings are captioned in French.
Six parts in three volumes. Volume I (parts 1-2): [1] f, XV, 211 pp + [2] plates; [1] f, 237 pp + [2] plates. Volume II (parts 3-4): [1] f, 264 pp + [16] plates; [1] f, 300 pp + [17] plates. Volume III (parts 5-6): [1] f, 234 pp + [9] plates; [1] f, 244 pp + [27] plates. 14 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Stains. Small tears. Loose gatherings. Detached, torn or loose bindings and spines. Blemishes to bindings.
The books in the series "The World in Miniature" focused on different countries throughout the world, and were accompanied by numerous engravings. The present item contains the series' six parts on the history of the Ottoman Empire, the life of its citizens, their dress and their customs, with 73 hand-colored engravings presenting upwards of 150 costumes. One engraving shows a Jewish resident of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the engravings are captioned in French.
Six parts in three volumes. Volume I (parts 1-2): [1] f, XV, 211 pp + [2] plates; [1] f, 237 pp + [2] plates. Volume II (parts 3-4): [1] f, 264 pp + [16] plates; [1] f, 300 pp + [17] plates. Volume III (parts 5-6): [1] f, 234 pp + [9] plates; [1] f, 244 pp + [27] plates. 14 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Stains. Small tears. Loose gatherings. Detached, torn or loose bindings and spines. Blemishes to bindings.
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A selection of views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar, by Reverend C. Willyams [Cooper Willyams]. London: Printed by J.F. Dove for John Hearne, 1822. English and French.
A volume with 36 fine hand-colored aquatint plates depicting views and sites in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, including a few aquatints depicting Haifa and the Carmel. With geographical and historical description, in English and French, to each plate. The aquatints were made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, after drawings by Cooper Willyams.
British clergyman and artist Cooper Willyams (1762-1816) was the chaplain of HMS Swiftsure during the Battle of the Nile (in this naval battle, in August 1798, the British Royal Navy led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the French Navy led by Napoleon Bonaparte). After the battle, the Swiftsure remained in Aboukir Bay and when it sailed to Acre in 1799, Willyams visited Haifa, creating several drawings of its views and residents. His memoires from the battle of the Nile and his service on the Swiftsure were first published in 1802 in the book "A Voyage Up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure", with 32 plates after the drawings he had created at the time. This second edition, published posthumously, features the 32 plates published in 1802, re-aquatinted, alongside four new plates.
[2] ff., 36 pp. + [36] plates (some with tissue guards), approx. 40 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains and damp damage. Tears and minor creases to margins of title page. Small open tear to one leaf. Tears to edges of last plate (not affecting the aquatint). Two of the plates are mounted on paper (for reinforcement). New binding.
A volume with 36 fine hand-colored aquatint plates depicting views and sites in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, including a few aquatints depicting Haifa and the Carmel. With geographical and historical description, in English and French, to each plate. The aquatints were made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, after drawings by Cooper Willyams.
British clergyman and artist Cooper Willyams (1762-1816) was the chaplain of HMS Swiftsure during the Battle of the Nile (in this naval battle, in August 1798, the British Royal Navy led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the French Navy led by Napoleon Bonaparte). After the battle, the Swiftsure remained in Aboukir Bay and when it sailed to Acre in 1799, Willyams visited Haifa, creating several drawings of its views and residents. His memoires from the battle of the Nile and his service on the Swiftsure were first published in 1802 in the book "A Voyage Up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure", with 32 plates after the drawings he had created at the time. This second edition, published posthumously, features the 32 plates published in 1802, re-aquatinted, alongside four new plates.
[2] ff., 36 pp. + [36] plates (some with tissue guards), approx. 40 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains and damp damage. Tears and minor creases to margins of title page. Small open tear to one leaf. Tears to edges of last plate (not affecting the aquatint). Two of the plates are mounted on paper (for reinforcement). New binding.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Les Quatorze Stations de la Voie Douloureuse [14 Stations of the Via Dolorosa]. Paris: M. Doussault, 1855. French. Second edition.
A folio volume with fourteen lithographs depicting the fourteen stations of the Via Dolorosa in the Old City in Jerusalem, map of the route, and a text describing the various stations. The lithographs were created after paintings by the French artist Charles Doussault. The title page is printed in red.
[3] ff. (title page and two text pages), [15] plates, 52 cm. Cloth-covered, gilt embossed binding. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Significant foxing and minor blemishes. Several pages browned. Most of the leaves and plates are partly detached. Worn binding (damage to front). Bookplate on inside front binding.
A folio volume with fourteen lithographs depicting the fourteen stations of the Via Dolorosa in the Old City in Jerusalem, map of the route, and a text describing the various stations. The lithographs were created after paintings by the French artist Charles Doussault. The title page is printed in red.
[3] ff. (title page and two text pages), [15] plates, 52 cm. Cloth-covered, gilt embossed binding. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Significant foxing and minor blemishes. Several pages browned. Most of the leaves and plates are partly detached. Worn binding (damage to front). Bookplate on inside front binding.
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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.
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.
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Égypte. Atlas annexé au mémoire sur la communication de la Mer Rouge à la Méditerranée [Egypt. An atlas accompanying an article about connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean]. Publisher and place of publication not indicated. [Paris?], 1802. French.
A folio atlas with five engraved plates: a hydrographic map of Egypt; a map of the Isthmus of Suez, a map and view of the area of Moses' Springs (Fontaine de Moïse), a chart of the various water levels along the Isthmus of Suez and a map of Alexandria.
The atlas was meant to accompany an article by the French engineer Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763-1841) which was written at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte and which examined the possibility of constructing a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, where today the Suez Canal passes. Le Père's article rejected the possibility of constructing a canal; however, fifty years later, it served engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps as the basis for his plans of the Suez Canal.
Le Père's article and the plates that appear in the atlas before us were published together in the series of books "Description de l'Égypte" [Description of Egypt], which was published during the years 1809-1829 and was the product of the work of more than a hundred scholars who participated in Napoleon's Campaign in Palestine during the late 18th century.
[1] leaf (title page and list of plates), [5] engraved plates. Volume: 53 cm. Four 52X66 cm plates and two approx. 65X100 cm plates (folded into four). Red cardboard binding, blank. Good overall condition. Stains (mostly to margins). Worming, mostly minor; some restored with pieces of paper. Label on the inside front binding. Blemishes to binding.
A folio atlas with five engraved plates: a hydrographic map of Egypt; a map of the Isthmus of Suez, a map and view of the area of Moses' Springs (Fontaine de Moïse), a chart of the various water levels along the Isthmus of Suez and a map of Alexandria.
The atlas was meant to accompany an article by the French engineer Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763-1841) which was written at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte and which examined the possibility of constructing a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, where today the Suez Canal passes. Le Père's article rejected the possibility of constructing a canal; however, fifty years later, it served engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps as the basis for his plans of the Suez Canal.
Le Père's article and the plates that appear in the atlas before us were published together in the series of books "Description de l'Égypte" [Description of Egypt], which was published during the years 1809-1829 and was the product of the work of more than a hundred scholars who participated in Napoleon's Campaign in Palestine during the late 18th century.
[1] leaf (title page and list of plates), [5] engraved plates. Volume: 53 cm. Four 52X66 cm plates and two approx. 65X100 cm plates (folded into four). Red cardboard binding, blank. Good overall condition. Stains (mostly to margins). Worming, mostly minor; some restored with pieces of paper. Label on the inside front binding. Blemishes to binding.
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Voyage dans la péninsule arabique du Sinaï et l'Égypte moyenne. Histoire, géographie, épigraphie [A Voyage to The Arabian Peninsula, Sinai and Middle Egypt. History, Geography, Epigraphy], by Lottin de Laval. Atlas volume. Paris: Gide et Cie, 1859 [additional title page with the date 1855-1859]. French. First edition.
The atlas volume of the work "A Voyage to The Arabian Peninsula, Sinai and Middle Egypt". Includes a large map of the Sinai Peninsula (double spread); 15 lithographic plates depicting views, sites and locals (by French artists Léon Sabatier and Eugène Cicéri, after de Laval); 17 photolithographic plates depicting archeological findings; and 80 prints of Nabatean inscriptions (on 40 plates, some with smaller illustrations).
Pierre Victor Lottin de Laval (1810-1903) was a French archeologist, writer and painter. Between 1843 and 1851, he participated in three French scientific expeditions to the Near East, creating dozens of drawings, sketches and reports. This atlas documents his third expedition in 1850-1851 in which he attempted to reconstruct the route of the Israelites in the desert. In order to copy the inscriptions and drawing he had discovered, de Laval developed a new technique for creating molds, which is named after him and used to this day – Lottinoplastie (pictures of some of the molds de Laval made during his expedition were printed in this atlas).
This volume was printed to accompany a text volume reviewing the archeological study of the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Desert and Middle Egypt.
[3] ff + [72] plates and [1] map (double-spread), 48.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing throughout the volume. Small wormholes to margins (slightly affecting several prints. The book was fumigated). Quarter-leather with marbled paper sides, damaged and slightly worn.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Mission de Phénicie [Mission to Phoenicia], edited by Ernest Renan. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1864. French. Atlas volume only.
A large volume with 70 printed plates (some double or folding and some in color) with drawings, sketches and maps, documenting archeological findings discovered by Ernest Renan's expedition to the cities of Phoenicia (Syria and Lebanon).
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French historian of religion, historian, philologist and archeologist. In 1860, he headed a scientific expedition on behalf of Emperor Napoleon III, which accompanied the French Expeditionary Force to Syria and Lebanon (during the Mount Lebanon civil war and the massacre of Christians by the Druze). The expedition conducted a survey of the historical sites of Phoenicia and its findings were published in the two volumes of "Mission to Phoenicia" – the present atlas volume and a text volume (see Kedem catalog 60, item 47).
[3] ff + [70] plates. 52 cm. Good condition. Foxing throughout the volume. Worming to inner margins (not affecting plates. The book was fumigated). Binding with leather spine. Blemishes and small tears to binding.
A large volume with 70 printed plates (some double or folding and some in color) with drawings, sketches and maps, documenting archeological findings discovered by Ernest Renan's expedition to the cities of Phoenicia (Syria and Lebanon).
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French historian of religion, historian, philologist and archeologist. In 1860, he headed a scientific expedition on behalf of Emperor Napoleon III, which accompanied the French Expeditionary Force to Syria and Lebanon (during the Mount Lebanon civil war and the massacre of Christians by the Druze). The expedition conducted a survey of the historical sites of Phoenicia and its findings were published in the two volumes of "Mission to Phoenicia" – the present atlas volume and a text volume (see Kedem catalog 60, item 47).
[3] ff + [70] plates. 52 cm. Good condition. Foxing throughout the volume. Worming to inner margins (not affecting plates. The book was fumigated). Binding with leather spine. Blemishes and small tears to binding.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $500
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Jerusalem Explored, Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground plans, and Sections, by Ermete Pierotti… Translated by Thomas George Bonney. London: Bell and Daldy, 1864. English. Two volumes.
English translation of the survey of Jerusalem by Italian engineer and archaeologist Ermete Pierotti. Volume I: text; Volume II: 63 plates, some folding, with lithographic prints of photographs and drawings (the photographs were taken by John Mendel Diness and others) depicting Mount Zion, David's Tomb, the Western Wall, the Tomb of Absalom and other sites; includes a large panorama of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives.
Italian archeologist and engineer Ermete Pierotti worked in Jerusalem between 1854 and 1861. He was employed by the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem to serve as architectural consultant on renovations of religious sites in the city, which were then closed to Western scholars (in particular sites on the Temple Mount) and worked as an architect and engineer in various construction projects. Upon publishing "Jerusalem Exposed" he was accused of plagiarism, one of the reasons being him taking credit for photographs that others had produced.
Vol. I: XII, 339, [1] pp. Vol. II: [4] leaves, [63] pp + LXIII plates. 38 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes to edges. Bookplate and ownership inscription in both volumes. The leaves in the second volume are detached one from the other and from the binding. Blemishes and wear to bindings.
English translation of the survey of Jerusalem by Italian engineer and archaeologist Ermete Pierotti. Volume I: text; Volume II: 63 plates, some folding, with lithographic prints of photographs and drawings (the photographs were taken by John Mendel Diness and others) depicting Mount Zion, David's Tomb, the Western Wall, the Tomb of Absalom and other sites; includes a large panorama of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives.
Italian archeologist and engineer Ermete Pierotti worked in Jerusalem between 1854 and 1861. He was employed by the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem to serve as architectural consultant on renovations of religious sites in the city, which were then closed to Western scholars (in particular sites on the Temple Mount) and worked as an architect and engineer in various construction projects. Upon publishing "Jerusalem Exposed" he was accused of plagiarism, one of the reasons being him taking credit for photographs that others had produced.
Vol. I: XII, 339, [1] pp. Vol. II: [4] leaves, [63] pp + LXIII plates. 38 cm. Gilt edges. Good-fair condition. Some stains. Minor blemishes to edges. Bookplate and ownership inscription in both volumes. The leaves in the second volume are detached one from the other and from the binding. Blemishes and wear to bindings.
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