Search Results: A Pilgrimage to Palestine: Early Travellers in the Holy Land from Librarium of The Hague

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 8vo. Pp. 183. Frontispiece. Plus eight halftone plates bound in. HARDCOVER, original green cloth. Very good condition. (Cloth faded, numbers painted to spine.) Internally bright. ~ FIRST EDITION. F-4 IN

London, James Clarke, (1936).. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. 167. With line-drawn illustration to each chapter. HARDCOVER, original light blue cloth, with illustrated dust-jacket. Trimmed rough. In a very good condition, with many leaves still unopened (bit dust-soiled). ~ FIRST EDITION. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her charming bookplate inside cover, discreet under flap of dust-jacket. Thomas Ratcliffe Barnett (1868-1946). Y-3 OUT

Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael & Keren Hajessod, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 51, (1) commercial ad. Includes an unsigned preface, apparently by the author. With 7 photo-plates, including a map of Palestine and a map of Emek Yisrael. Appendix. Original plain wrappers detached, separated, small tear at blank head of title-page. Neat, clean interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. In the second edition, Löwenstein is no longer identified himself as the author. He was the director of the Zionist Information Office for Tourists in Palestine. A fascinating publication, published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish National Fund, and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller's guide to the Holy Places, it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. It includes background information for visits in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and its region, Haifa, Valley of Yisrael, Nazareth, Afula, Beth Shean, as well as some newly established villages. The appendix… Read More

Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael & Keren Hajessod, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 51, (1) commercial ad. Includes an unsigned preface, apparently by the author. With 7 photo-plates, including a map of Palestine and a map of Emek Yisrael. Appendix. Original plain wrappers, lettered in brown. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. In the second edition, Löwenstein no longer identified himself as the author. He was the director of the Zionist Information Office for Tourists in Palestine. A fascinating publication, published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish National Fund, and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller's guide to the Holy Places, it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. It includes background information for visits in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and its region, Haifa, Valley of Yisrael, Nazareth, Afula, Beth Shean, as well as some newly established villages. The appendix brings a financial report of the… Read More

Jerusalem, Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael, 1927. Soft cover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 48. Plus 2 extra pages with 3 photo-plates, and 6 other such illustrations. With a folding line-drawn map tipped-in onto inside of back wrap. Appendices. Original decorated wrappers, lettered in red, with a woodcut illustration of a Holy Land landscape, spine very lightly rubbed. In about fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ Second edition. A fascinating publication, published by the Zionist Information Office of the Jewish National Fund, and printed in Tel Aviv. Not a traditional traveller's guide to the Holy Places, it is an invitation to visit the Zionist community in Palestine. It includes background information for visits in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and its region, Haifa, Valley of Yisrael, Nazareth, Afula, Beth Shean, as well as some newly established villages. Further, there are detailed programmes for a three-day, a five-day, a week, and two-weeks visits, with advise what to do and where to go on each day. There is also… Read More

London, James Nisbet, 1858. Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. vii, (1) errata, 424. Plus folding engraved map of the Sinaitic Peninsula as frontispiece (neat paper repair on verso), and 3 engraved plates bound in. With an appendix describing the route through the desert with a list of place names; an extended index, in practice a glossary, incorporating numerous words in Hebrew; a list of mountains' heights; and an index of scripture sources quoted in the text. Some illustrations to the text, footnotes. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's decorated brown cloth, large illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, joints worn, partly split. In good condition. ~ Second edition. "This volume is really what it professes to be - 'Notes of a journey.' The notes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, and extended afterwards." The author, Kelso, 1856. Not in Tobler. F-5 OUT

Sátoraljaújhely, W. Alexander, 1910. Hardcover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 288. Portrait frontispiece and another plate. Some text ornaments. List of participants. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's grained crimson cloth, small plate of Jerusalem mounted on upper cover, black lettering, floral endpapers apparently lacking free endpaper, cloth bit faded and marked, slight wear at spine ends. Bit shaken, opens stiff, but nevertheless a lovely copy. ~ The travelogue of Wilhelm Alexander describes the pilgrimage in 1910 of 68 Jews, predominantly Hungarian, from Budapest to Palestine. They first travelled to Triest, where they embarked on the "Elektra", sailing to Alexandria. From Alexandria, via Cairo and Port Said, they arrived at Jaffa. Alexander's report is a remarkable account. It combines his critical, sometime painful observations, detailed descriptions of meetings with the local community and dignitaries, with a travelogues of pilgrimages to the holy places,… Read More

München, Ner-Tamid, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. 46. With 4 photographic plates. Original limp boards with integral dust-jacket. In fine condition, mint interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Y-3 OUT

Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1936. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Octavo. Pp. 79, (1). Woodcut frontispiece. With full-page maps and original linocut illustrated head-pieces. Notes. Original illustrated card wrappers, printed in red and black. Roughly trimmed; signature to half-title. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy. F-4 IN

Trier, Paulinus, 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. 100. Set in Gothic type. Original printed wrappers, decorated in black, shelf label to spine, small institutional stamp. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare travelogue to the Holy Land at the end of the 19th Century. It contains: Stations of the journey with daily reports; visits to Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Cairo, Alexandria. Y-3 OUT

Wien, Albrecht Dürer, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. 12m. Pp. 160. HARDCOVER, original cloth-backed boards, decorated in gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition. (Dust-jacket, being white, is rather soiled, with upper edge bit worn.) Internally fresh. ~ FIRST EDITION. F-5 IN

Zürich, Orell Füssli, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. 24. Plus 62 photographic plates. Plus 16 pages of illustrated publisher's catalogue bound at end. HARDCOVER, bound in the original pictorial boards; inscription to first free endpaper. In a very good condition, crisp plates. ~ FIRST EDITION. Y-3 OUT

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, (1861).. Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. iv, 348. Plus 5 tinted wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece, these dampmarked and foxed. Footnotes. HARDCOVER, original quarter black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Three ribbon markers; old private ownership stamp to title-page. In a very good condition. ~ First Dutch edition. F-5 IN

London, Methuen, 1925. Hardcover. .. 8vo. Pp. 259. Frontispiece, and seven other plates in colour, bound in. HARDCOVER, original blue cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition. ~ First British edition. Colour illustrations from paintings by the author. F-4 IN

London, Rich & Cowan, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. xv, 355. Plus (helio)gravure frontispiece and 23 other (helio)gravure plates, many of which double-page, printed on thick paper. Bibliography, appendix, index. Illustrated endpapers. HARDCOVER, original black cloth, spine gilt with small shelf number in neat hand. In fine condition. An excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Account of a journey into the Sinai Desert. F-5 OUT

Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, 1824. Soft cover. .. Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume, paginated continuously. Pp. (ii), 90; 91-356. Letterpress device to title-page, Imprimatur dated 1824 on verso; half-title with Approbation dated 1818 on verso, list of subscribers, footnotes. Original printed wrappers slightly edge frayed. In a very good condition, with contemporary Prize label in manuscript. ~ Travel account to the Holy land. This edition not in Tobler who lists the 1819 edition and the 1860 edition only. Z-3 IN

Paris, Maison, 1854. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. (ii), 422, (2). With a folding lithograph map of Palestine and a folding lithograph plan of Jerusalem, loosely inserted. HARDCOVER, bound in red three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt; light dampmark to bottom of leaves, some spotting. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Tobler, 186: "Dieser feiner gebildete mann schreibt sehr fliessend und anziehend." Dedicated and signed by the Author on half title. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her bookplate. Previously in the collection of the Dutch Institute for the Near East, with a bookplate to that effect inside cover and a stamp to verso of title-page. F-5 IN

Louvain, Vanlinthout et Vandenzande, 1824. Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Two parts in one volume, paginated continuously. Pp. (ii), 90; 91-356. Letterpress device to title-page, Imprimatur, dated 1824, on verso; half-title with Approbation, dated 1818, on verso. List of subscribers. Footnotes. Printed on laid paper. HARDCOVER, contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, with small shelf label, all edges speckled, old institutional stamps and label. In about fine condition. ~ Travel account to the Holy Land. Not in Tobler, who lists the 1819 edition and the 1860 edition only. F-5 IN

London, T. Nelson, 1864. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Small octavo. Pp. viii, 9-288. Tinted lithograph frontispiece. Plus 14 other tinted lithographs on 9 plates, some full-page. Ornamental head- and tail pieces. HARDCOVER, bound in the original decorated blue pebble-grain cloth, gilt ornament and lettering, to cover and spine, all edges gilt; crack to inner hinge, spine ends worn, front flyleaf incised. In a very good condition, fine plates. ~ FIRST EDITION. The chief interest of many of the events recorded in the Bible gathers round its rivers and lakes, and this book attempts to link the explanation of the Scripture with the description of the scenes which are visited. It draws on many sources, namely Robinson's "Researches in Palestine," Lynch's "Narrative of the American Exploring Expedition to the Jordan and the Dead Sea," Stanley's "Sinai and Palestine," and several others. Of particular value are the charming plates, a set of delicate pen-and-ink… Read More

Paris, André Delpeuch, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Octavo. Pp. 210, (2) publisher's ads. With 64 line-drawn illustrations, many of which full-page. Printed on thick paper. Original plain wrappers, lettered in brown, bit soiled, rubbed. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. A volume in the l'Invitation au Voyage Series. Original pen and ink impressions by de Feder, published here for the first time. F-5 IN