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 a survey of Jerusalem by Italian engineer and archaeologist Ermete Pierotti. Volume I: text; Volume II: 63 plates, some folded, with lithographic prints of Pierotti's photographs and drawings depicting Mount Zion, David's Tomb, the Jewish Hospital Misgav Ladach, the Tomb of Absalom and other sites; includes a large panorama of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives.
Pierotti came to Jerusalem in 1854, having been chosen to serve as a consultant on the renovations of the Temple Mount. He participated in various construction projects in Jerusalem and was appointed Jerusalem's municipal engineer within a short time. This position enabled him to visit sites which were closed to Western scholars, in particular the Temple Mount and the Mosques. "Jerusalem Explored" is the result of a long historical and archaeological study of Jerusalem.
A promotional booklet (4 pp) from the publisher is bound at the end of the first volume.
Vol. I: XII, [1], 339, [1] pp. Vol. II: [8], [63] pp + LXIII plates. 38 cm. Vol. I: Good condition. Some stains and creases. Leather spine. Stains and blemishes to binding. Vol. II: Good-fair condition. Stains. Handwritten inscription on one of the pages and a marking in colored pencil on one of the plates. A number of detached leaves. Some tears at margins (tear to front endpaper, reinforced with adhesive tape). Parts of the panorama are reinforced with a cloth strip. Half leather binding. Stains and blemishes to binding. Cloth strips are pasted on the top and bottom of the spine, and on the joints between the binding and endpapers.