Eight Travel Books and Books About Eretz Israel – 1849-1911

Eight travel books and books about Eretz Israel:
* Hellig Jord, Rejsebilleder fra Palæstina, Med over 100 Illustrationer, Edvard Blaumüller [the Holy Land, memoir of travel to Palestine with more than one hundred pictures]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske boghandels forlag, 1898. Danish.
[1] leaf, 345, [2] pp + [26] picture-plates, 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Several detached leaves. Damage to binding.
* Die Länder und Stätten der Heiligen Schrift, in ausgewählten Bildern mit erläuterndem Texte, Friedrich Adolf Strauss and Otto Strauss [Countries and towns in the Holy Scriptures, selected pictures accompanied by text]. Stuttgars-Munich, 1861. German.
Accompanied by numerous lithographs and engravings: * title page engraving * 67 engraving-plates and lithographs, some in color (some colored by hand) * 3 maps: Jerusalem, Eretz Israel and a double-plate of Mediterranean and Near East countries. Many additional illustrations within the text.
vii, 542 pp + [1] engraving preceding the title page, [90] engraving-plates, [3] map-plates (one double), 27.5 cm. Lacking copy. Fair condition. Stains. Partly dismantled book. Detached engraving-plates. Damage to binding.
* Reisebilder aus Palastina, Adolf Friedemann [Travel to Palestine]. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1904. Accompanied by reproductions of original engravings and paintings by Hermann Struck. Dedication by the author on the first page (1905).
134, [1] pp, 26 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damage to binding.
* Wanderungen durch Palästina, Konrad Furrer [wandering through Palestine]. Zurich: Orell, Fussli und Comp, 1865. German. Accompanied by a print-plate, preceding the title page and to folding plates with map of Jerusalem and a map of Eretz Israel.
Xii, 414 pp + [2] folding maps. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damage to binding.
* Le livre d'or des familles ou La Terre-sainte illustrée, Jean Guillaume Antoine Luthereau. Brussels: Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts, 1849. French.
Accompanied by 58 lithograph-plates and a folding plate map of Eretz Israel. Additional illustration within the text.
232 pp + [58] lithograph plates, [1] folding map. 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming.
* Eine Orientreise vom Jahre 1881, Kronprinz Rudolf von Osterreich . Vienna, 1885. German. Accompanied by 60 print-plates and numerous illustrations within the text. Illustration of author's portrait facing the title page.
[3] leaves, 361, [2] pp, 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damage to binding.
* Sinaï Ma'ân Pétra, sur les traces d'Israël et chez les Nabatéens, avec une lettre-préface du Marquis de Vogüé de l'Académie française, Adelaide Sargenton-Galichon Paris: Lecoffre, 1904. French.
Xv, 304, [1] pp. Fair condition. Worming. Stains.
* Eine Die Palästina-Literatur, eine internationale Bibliographie in Orientreise vom Jahre 1881, Kronprinz Rudolf von Osterreich .
systematischer Ordnung mit Autoren- und Sachregister, auf Veranlassung des Deutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palästinas, Peter Thomsen. [Bibliography of literature about Eretz Israel on behalf of the German society for study of Eretz Israel]. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1911. German. Three parts bound together in one thick volume.
Xvi, 203, [1] pp; xx, 315, [1] pp; 387, [1] pp (missing: title page + xx leaves), 20.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming.
8 books.