Reland's most significant work, an early geographic research of Biblical Palestine, based on various sources, including Rabbinical and Arabic literature. With 16 engraved plates (of which several are folded), including a portrait of the author, maps and plans of Palestine, table of distances, a table of latitude and longitude of various Biblical cities, Biblical genealogy, an engraved frontispiece and a number of small in–text engravings.

Adriaan Reland (Adriaan Reelant / Adriaan Reland / Hadriani Relandi, 1676–1718), was a Dutch geographer, cartographer, philologist and one of the first orientalists. Professor of oriental languages at the University of Utrecht from 1701 and lecturer on the history of the Jewish people.

2 Volumes. Vol. I: [7], 381, [1] pages + [15] engraved plates. Vol. II: [1], 384–787, [1] pages, [41] leaves + [1] engraved plate. Approx 23.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Some inscriptions to endpapers. Minor tears to several leaves. Matching, half–leather, bindings, worn and slightly worn.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, NHB.374.