Author: Auerbach, Elias.
Title: Wüste und gelobtes Land. I: Geschichte Israels von den Anfängen bis zum Tode Salomos; II: Geschichte Israels vom Tode Salomos bis Ezra und Nehemia. [TWO VOLUMES].
Description: Berlin, Schocken, 1932-36. Hardcover. Two volumes. Crown 4to. Pp. xii, 307, plus coloured relief map of Palestine and 17 plates; 287, plus 15 plates, 2 folding coloured lithographed maps loosely inserted in rear pocket. With illustrations and maps to the text in first volume. Hardcover, original black cloth, spine gilt, one volume with good dust-jacket; neat old signature to front flyleaf of first volume. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down of first volume. The maps are particularly handsome. The largest, Palästina, measures ca. 53 x 40 cm, is printed in numerous colours and has 3 insets. The second, ca. 42 x 42, is a view of the Assyrian and Babylonian kingdoms from 800 until 700 B.C. It is printed in 5 colours. Both maps are crisp, practically unused. ST-5 .

Keywords: PALESTINE STUDIES HISTORY HISTORICAL BIBLICAL PALÄSTINA PALESTINA HOLY LAND JEWISH JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM MUSLIM ISRAEL ANCIENT EARLY MIDDLE EAST LEVANT HEILIGEN LANDE BIBLE TESTAMENT ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ARCHÄOLOGIE ARCHÉOLOGIE MAPS


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