Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
"Karte von Syrien" – Large Map of Palestine and Its Surroundings, by Cartograph Heinrich Berghaus – Germany, 1835
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Karte von Syrien, den Manen Jacotin's und Burckhardt's gewidmet [Map of Syria, Dedicated to Jacotin and Burckhardt], engraved map by Heinrich Berghaus (1772-1852). From Atlas von Asia, 5. Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes, 1835. German.
Large engraved map of Palestine and its surroundings; on its margins, thirteen small illustrations of views and sites of Palestine and Lebanon. Several of the borderlines are hand-colored.
The map is dedicated to the cartographer Pierre Jacotin and the Swiss Orientalist Johann Burckhardt.
Approx. 66.5X100.5 cm. (two sheets attached to each other). Good condition. Creases and several small tears to margins. A few stains.
Large engraved map of Palestine and its surroundings; on its margins, thirteen small illustrations of views and sites of Palestine and Lebanon. Several of the borderlines are hand-colored.
The map is dedicated to the cartographer Pierre Jacotin and the Swiss Orientalist Johann Burckhardt.
Approx. 66.5X100.5 cm. (two sheets attached to each other). Good condition. Creases and several small tears to margins. A few stains.
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