Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum, by Christian van Adrichem. Cologne: Birckmannica, 1628 (imprint from colophon). Latin.

The influential work of Catholic priest Christian van Adrichem (1533-1585), considered one of the most important works on the geography of Palestine in the Modern Era. The book, compiled over close to thirty years, was published posthumously, and for the following two hundred years served as the basis for maps by many cartographers.
The book contains twelve engraved maps: nine maps of the territories of the Tribes of Israel, a map of the Desert of Paran and two larger maps of particular significance – a map of Jerusalem (showing the gates and the central sites; the first map to depict the 14 stations of the Via Dolorosa), and a map of all Palestine (after which cartographers such as Thomas Fuller, Jan Jannson and Nicholas Visscher modeled their maps). In this copy, the two sheets comprising the map of Palestine were bound separately, one after the other (in other copies the sheets were joined to form one large, folding plate).

[5] ff., 286 pp., [19] ff. (originally: [15]; four leaves were bound twice) + [1] engraved title page and twelve engraved maps (on 13 folding plates). F. 267-8 bound after f. 269-70. 37.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor tears and blemishes. Closed and open tears to edges and fold lines of some engraved plates (in the maps of Jerusalem and Palestine – tears affecting engraving); a few tears mended with paper. One plate trimmed at bottom edge (minor damage to engraving). Some plates smaller than book's pages. Handwritten notations to margin of title page and last page. Parchment binding, worn and damaged.

A View of the Levant; Particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, by Charles Perry. London: T. Woodward, 1743. English. First Edition.

A book by English traveler Charles Perry (1697-1780), illustrated with 20 engraved plates by George Bickham jun. The work contains a detailed account of the revolt of the janissaries in Istanbul in 1730, descriptions of the cities visited by Perry (including Jaffa, Jerusalem and Nazareth), much information on Egypt, and more. Engravings include: a map of the Nile; portrait of "Alli Patrona" (Patrona Halil), leader of the 1730 revolt in Istanbul; the Great Pyramid of Giza and Egyptian antiquities; and more.
For further information, see: Rachel Finnegan, English Explorers in the East (1738-1745), the Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), pp. 143-180.

XVI, [8], 524 [i.e. 516], [4] pp. + [20] engraved plates (including one double-spread plate and six folding plates). 36.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Few minor tears. New binding and endpapers. Ex-libris to inside front board.

A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red Sea, on the Coast of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Deserts of Thebais, Hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller, in the year MDCCLXXVII, in Letters to a Lady, by Eyles Irwin. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, London, 1780. English. First edition.

An account of an adventure-filled voyage from India to England, through the Red Sea and Egypt, by Irish poet and writer Eyles Irwin (1751-1817). Illustrated with six engraved plates, including three folding maps showing the route of the voyage (map of the Red Sea and two maps of the Nile).

XV, [1], 400 pp. + [6] plates, approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains (some dark), creases and wear. Tears, including minor open tears to edges of a few leaves and one folding map, not affecting text or illustration. Front endpaper torn and partially detached. Inked stamps. Bookplate to inside front board. Leather covered binding, worn and damaged. Front board partially detached. Strip of cloth on spine, for restoration (a piece of leather with title mounted to cloth).

Unexplored Baluchistan. A survey, with observations astronomical, geographical, botanical, etc., of a route through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey, by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer. London: Griffith & Farran, 1882. First edition. English.
Illustrated with a woodburytype frontispiece (the author and his Baluch servant), 11 prints (ten plates, one in-text) depicting various views and sites, and a folding map (printed in color), showing the author's route.
[1] f., XVII, [2], 507 pp. (including 7 pages with prints) + [4] plates + [1] frontispiece + [1] folding map, 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to folding map. Minor blemishes. Stains and blemishes to binding. Spine torn (with much loss) and crumbling. Front board and several gatherings detached.

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 engravings, 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.

Vol. I: VIII, 520 pp. + [1] engraved plate and [2] maps (double-spread plates); Vol. II: [III]-VI, 474 pp. + [1] engraved plate and [1] map (double-spread plate). Missing blank leaf at the beginning of Vol. II. 37.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Wear and minor tears to bindings.