RELAND, Adriaan (1676–1718). Palaestina ex monumentis veter...

2 volumes, small 4to. (Occasional pale browning at margins, discrete library call number at the foot of *3). Allegorical additional title engraved by J. Goeree, printed titles in red and black with engraved devices, engraved folding portrait, large folding table, 10 engraved maps (3 folding), and 3 engraved folding plates. (Few plates browned). Full period vellum, remnants of hand–titling on spines (spines a bit darkened, some dust soiling to covers). Provenance: inscription dated 1841.

FIRST EDITION of this “ouvrage trés estimé” (Brunet). Reland, an Orientalist at the University of Utrecht, never visited Palestine which makes his work that much more extraordinary as his work was based on many of the best authors available and was still considered “a remarkable work for its time” (Blackmer). Blackmer 1406.