Shoshana klein assistant editor (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. First edition. Oblong Quarto. xix (i), 201pp. Original brown cloth with white lettering on cover and spine in original illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Light brown endpapers. Based on the Eran Laor Collection at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Compiled by Eran Laor. "The Hebrews acquired the art of surveying during their Exile in Egypt. The scriptural account of the apportioning of the Promised Land among the tribes is thought to be the first literary evidence of mapmaking in the early history of mankind." (Publisher). A comprehensive Cartobibliography of printed maps of the Holy Land. With an introduction by Eran Laor. Maps included range from the first printed map in the 1475 edition of the Rudimentum Novitiorum via Ptolemaeic and maps produced in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth to the surveys of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of maps throughout, many of them full page. Bibliography, index of personal names and a chronological index at rear. Light wear along edges of dustjacket, light creasing and a half an inch closed tear at bottom edge. Block lightly age-toned along edges.…