Online Auction 09 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Tvu'ot Ha'Aretz" – German Translation – Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz– Frankfurt, 1852

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Das Heilige Land, nach seiner ehemaligen und jetzigen geographischen Beschaffenheit, nebst kritischen Blicken in das Carl v. Raumer’sche "Palaestina", von Joseph Schwarz; Deutsch bearbeitet von Israel Schwarz. Frankfurt am Main, 1852. German.
German translation of the book "Tvu’ot Ha’aretz", by Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz. Five plates: R' Yehosef Schwartz's portrait facing the title page. Images of the Temple Mount, Western Wall and Bethlehem (two illustrations on one plate); Cave of the Patriarchs and a folding plate with a panoramic view of Jerusalem in lithographic printing, together with a folding map of Eretz Israel (1847).
XIX, 452, 20 pp.+ [5] plates, 20.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, foxing. One folding map is worn and slightly torn at margins. Margins of binding are worn. Lacking part of spine.
Travels in Palestine and Maps
Travels in Palestine and Maps