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HOLY LAND
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Famous Maps of the Holy Land — Based on Sources Now Lost
Adrichem (a.k.a. Adrichom), Christiaan van. Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum historiarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis. [colophon: Coloniae Agrippinae: Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, 1590]. Folio (38.5 cm; 15.125"). [6] ff., 286 pp., [15] ff.; [12] fold. or double-page engr. maps.
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12 folding or double-page engraved maps filled with small details, including sea monsters. The text, printed in roman type in double-column format, contains as lagniappe a chronology from Adam to 1585, the year of the author's death, and on pp. 145–81 his “Urbis Hierosolymae,” a listing of 270 landmarks in Jerusalem. 
An interesting “guide book.”
Provenance: Early inked inscription of Francisci Rolland on title-page with another owner's signature scratched out; later in the “Palestine Institute” at the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).
A marvelous series of maps and a well-researched text. (36911)
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Grammars & Language StudiesAlting, Jacob. Jacobi Altingi ... Fundamenta punctationis linguae sanctae, cum necessariis canonum, locorum S. Scripturae & vocum irregularium indicibus. Francofurti ad Moenum: Sumptibus viduae beati Knochii et J.G. Eslingeri, 1746. 8vo (18 cm; 7.25"). 3 parts in 1 vol. I: [8] ff., 385, [1] pp., [3] ff., [1], 7 pp. [30], [24] ff. II: [2] ff., 122 pp. III: [8] ff., 31, [1], 32, 88, 57–176 pp.
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• This edition not in VD18. Modern light brown paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Ex-library with faint blind-pressure stamp on title- and one other leaf and librarian's pencil notations on verso of title-page. Scattered foxing, occasional stray stain. Overall a good, solid, clean copy. (33597)
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A Liberal Panamanian Politician in the Holy Land Arosemena, Domingo. Sensaciones en oriente, o, impresiones bíblicas de un granadino en la Tierra Santa. Nueva York: Imprenta de Robert Craighead, 1859. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). Frontis. port., viii, 373, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Why his account was printed in New York is not explained, butit is probable that he was in exile. There seems to be no other edition of the work. One suspects Arosemena bore all of the publication costs, meaning the print run was small, chiefly for friends, family, and a few others. This would also explain why only five U.S. (NYPL, UChicago, UKansas, Harvard, Vanderbilt) and seven foreign institutions (Oxford, Universidad Pontifica del Peru, British Library, Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Institute Catholique de Paris, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) report ownership of the work (as per WorldCat).
• Not in Palau. Publisher's blind-embossed brown bead-textured cloth, covers with central oval containing a blind-stamped kneeling figure (which it is tempting to see as Christ in the Garden of Gethsemene); spine faded. A label carelessly removed from front free endpaper. Light foxing to fore-edges. Otherwise, very good. (38585)
“Un Missionnaire Doit Être un Excellent Voyageur”Jesuits. Nouvelles des missions, extraites des Lettres edifiantes et curieuses. Paris: Societé catholique des bons livres, 1827. 12mo (16.9 cm, 6.68"). 2 vols. I: vii, [3], 214 pp. II: [4], 243, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.highlights of letters from the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas (Constantinople, Armenia, Persia, Syria, Tripoli, Jerusalem and the Holy
Land, in the first volume; various parts of Canada, California, Santo Domingo, and Guyana in the second).
• This ed. not in Sabin; see 40697 for main entry. Contemporary paper in tree calf pattern, spines with gilt-stamped red leather title-labels; rubbed overall. All edges stained yellow. Front free endpapers each with small 19th-century library paper shelving label. Occasional small spots of staining or foxing, pages generally clean. (40086)
American Acid-Stained Autumnal Binding — Spine with a DISTINCTIVE StampJosephus, Flavius. The genuine works of Flavius Josephus; translated by William Whiston, A.M. New York: Published by William Borradaile, 1825. 12mo (18 cm; 7"). Vol. 6 only of 6. Frontis., 317, [1] pp.
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The stamp so effectively used here has been identified as one engraved by Samuel Dodd, 19th-century bookbinders' tool maker of Bloomfield, NJ.
The text present is preceded by a good engraving by Maverick entitled “People of Masada.”
Provenance: Late 19th- or 20th-century ownership stamp on front free endpaper of Henry M. Bissell.
• Shoemaker 21077; Rosenbach, Jewish, 276; Dodd's stamp identified by scholar Steve Beare. Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside); browning to endpapers from glue action and ownership stamp on front free one. Some foxing. Vol. 6 only: Sold as a binding and very good as such. (35830)
Standing in a “New Light” — ARCHAEOLOGY'S ImplicationsKerr, Thomas. Pick and shovel explorations. A series of Sunday evening lectures. Rockford, IL: Morning Star Printing, 1890. Small 8vo. 40 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. NUC and WorldCat locateonly the copy at the Rockford, IL, public library.
Evidence of Readership: Pencil notes on front wrapper, pencil notations in some margins and some underlining; “no” appears next to several assertions about “scientific discoveries” as to Akkadian; and a paragraph of 18 lines on p. 37 is completely, neatly excised (costing lines on verso also) — though whether the clipping was done for posting/sharing (or for “preservation” in a scrapbook), or as an act of censorship, is unknowable.
• Original printed wrappers; “evidence of readership” as above. Very good. (34323)
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What They Wore in Biblical Times — Illustrations Supervised by
Benjamin WestSatchwell, Richard. Scripture costume: Exhibited in a series of engravings, representing the principal personages mentioned in the sacred writings ... with biographical sketches and historical remarks on the manners and customs of eastern nations. London: Pr. for Samuel Leigh by W. Clowes, 1819. Large 4to (32.8 cm, 12.9"). [2], viii, 170 pp.; 20 col. plts.
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20 aquatint plates were engraved by Thomas Lord Busby after Satchwell's drawings and colored by hand; the illustrations are accompanied by extensive biographical and historical commentary. This elaborate production is apparently uncommon in research institutions where its presence might be expected; WorldCat places it in only six U.S. locations including the Library of Congress, one state library, one major art museum, and two great public libraries.
A sturdy. impressive, and eye-pleasing volume. (37244)
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Jerusalem Delivered; the Elizabethan English TranslationTasso, Torquato. Godfrey of Boulogne: or The recoverie of Ierusalem. London: John Bill, 1624. Folio (27.9 cm, 11"). Frontis., [24], [390 of 392] pp. (81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile).
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription: “Phill Wenman”; first page of “The Life of Godfrey of Boulogne” with early inked inscription: “Phi. Wenman his Booke.” Frontispiece verso, title-page, and one other page rubber-stamped by the Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).
Evidence of readership: Intermittent, generally unobtrusive early inked marginal brackets and marks of emphasis, with one annotation reading simply “Milton” (at “Swift from my selfe I run, my selfe I feare, / Yet still my hell within my selfe I beare”).
• ESTC S117570; Graesse, VI, 35; NCBEL, I, 1103; STC (rev. ed.) 23699. Contemporary mottled calf framed in double blind fillets, rebacked with plain calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides predictably acid-pitted. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on contemporary fly-leaf. Institutional rubber-stamps as above, title-page recto with stamped numeral; pp. 81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile. Pages with light age-toning and cockling, occasional small smudges or spots; a few corners bumped. One leaf with tear from upper outer corner, not extending into text; four final leaves with closed tear in inner margin and small hole in text, affecting one to two letters of six lines of text without obscuring sense. A solid copy with appreciable history. (36790)
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