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19803755DBMünchen, Idion-Verlag, 1980. Schmall-Folio (18() Blatt mit zahlreichen Illustrationen. Pergamentband mit drei Schliessen.
1929187341London: Office of the Chief Rabbi 1929. First edition of the Chief Rabbi's prayers following the 1929 Hebron massacre in Palestine in which 67 Jews were killed issued as an order of service for synagogues. The massacre was a seminal moment prompting the creation of the Haganah paramilitary organization which became the core of the Israel defence Forces. Along with other riots that year the massacre led to the Shaw Commission which recommended restricting further Jewish immigration to Palestine. Octavo bifolium. Text in Hebrew and English. Creased and a little soiled. A good copy. unknown
1930182213London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1930. First separate edition transmitting the text of a statement by Drummond Shiels Britain's representative to the Permanent Mandates Commission following the publication of the Shaw Report into the 1929 Palestine disturbances. Shiels's statement while accepting of Shaw's findings displays the same equivocation that characterized Whitehall's approach to Palestine in the early 1930s. After 1929 "for the first time the British government publicly began to evaluate the socioeconomic impact of its policy on the Palestinian population. In October 1930 the Colonial Office issued a new statement of policy on Palestine the Passfield White Paper which went a long way toward meeting Arab demands for limitations on Jewish immigration" Miller p. 9. This paper was almost immediately retracted by Downing Street Ramsay MacDonald making reassuring overtures to Chaim Weizmann and "in the end the manner in which the British responded to the events of 1929 created greater suspicion of their intentions among Jews as well as Arabs" Miller p. 10. Octavo pp. 10. Original self-wrappers wire-stitched with pp. 5-6 leaf loosely inserted as issued. Toning and creasing: very good. Ylana Miller Government and Society in Rural Palestine 1920-1948 2014. unknown
65779Jerusalem: Compiled Drawn & Printed under the direction of F.J. Salmon Commissionaer for Lands & Surveys Palestine May 1947. Original lithograph plan of Jerusalem 75 x 60 cm printed in black grey and red surrounded by decorative greek key border vignette title and index folding between publisher's original pale-blue card covers. In excellent condition. This map was compiled drawn and printed in Palestine under the direction of Frederick John Salmon the Commissioner for Lands and Surveys. First published in 1936 with two later editions issued in 1945 a first edition created by Salmon and a second edition with new information supplied by the Department of Antiquities. This is the third edition which is a 'modified reprint' published in May 1947. Notable sites are identified with particular emphasis on Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock the Al Aqsa Mosque and Solomon's Stables now the El-Marwani Mosque are labelled among other sites. Sixty-three sites throughout are numerically labelled and correspond with an index in the lower right. Outside the Old City King David's Tomb and the Church of the Dormition appear on Mt. Zion. Several hospitals schools and cemeteries are also identified. Frederick John Salmon 1882 - July 8 1964 was a British surveyor foreign service officer and soldier. He served in the Ceylon Survey from 1908 through 1930 with the exception of serving on the Western Front during World War I. During the war he made a name for himself by promoting cooperation between surveying and artillery. He was also particularly enthusiastic about printing and distributing updated maps and using aerial photography to update tactical maps. He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in December 1918. Between 1930 and 1933 Salmon directed the Lands and Survey Departments in Cyprus but was named Director of the Palestine Survey at the end of 1932. He began work at the Survey of Palestine on March 27 1933 and began an initiative to begin a modern topographical mapping of Palestine. He was appointed Commissioner for Lands and Surveys of Palestine and as a member of the Advisory Council to the Government of Palestine in 1935. After a thirty-year career surveying sites around the Empire Salmon retired on July 13 1938. His cartographic work is part of the collection at the Royal Geographical Society. In 1937 then Commissioner of Lands and Surveys Lieutenant Colonel F. J. Salmon described the importance of the department's work with respect to allowing land purchases: "In the Ottoman days a title to a piece of land in Palestine was a very vague document. There was no survey recording shape area or position; the description was usually to say the least of it ambiguous and the extent which was the gauge for taxation was almost invariably falsified to save the pocket of the owner. Big blocks were and in areas where there has been no land settlement still are shared by large numbers of owners who have no defined boundaries and who often alter the position of their plots from year to year… To purchase land from a title owner or worse still from an occupier who had no title was a very uncertain business and often still is. The difficulty however is now being solved though very slowly by Land Settlement… The claims are recorded and examined by Palestinian Assistant Settlement Officers while cases of dispute are heard by British Land Settlement Officers… Even in areas that are not under Settlement a land-owner can apply for an authoritative registration of title on a modern survey but if there is a dispute this has to be settled by the Land Court a much slower more expensive and laborious proceeding than an investigation and judgment by a Settlement Officer". Salmon F.J. 1937. "The Modern Geography of Palestine". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 69 1: 33–42. Jerusalem: Compiled, Drawn & Printed under the direction of F.J. Salmon, Commissionaer for Lands & Surveys, Palestine, May, 1947 unknown
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF CHAIM WEIZMANN AND BEARS HIS PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN.
42662Paris.Andriveau.1857.Carte en couleurs pliée dans une reliure verte . Bel état.Reliure en chagrin vert de l'époque,aux plats richement ornés de filets,frises,guirlandes dorées.Dos avec lettres dorées.
43622Carte en couleurs dépliante dans une reliure.1857.Avec explication,plan de Jérusalem,,Golfe de Suez.Reliure petit in-8 et carte entoilée dépliée de format in-folio.Très jolie reliure en chagrin vert dont les plats sont lergement décoréd de filets,perles,dentelles,guirlandes dorées.Titre au dos dans un encadrement doré romantique. TBE.
P., Plon, 1882-1884. Deux volumes in folio (40 x 30 cm) reliés demi maroquin rouge à coins, avec soulignement d'un double filet doré sur la hauteur et aux coins, dos à nerfs, têtes dorées, 468 pages- 22 gravures sur acier hors texte (dont plan de Jérusalem en couleurs sur double pageset 288 gravures sur bois dans le texte ; (&é pages-22 gravures sur acier hors texte (dont sur double page la carte de la Palestine et la carte de l'Egypte et de l'Arabie Pérée en couleurs), avec 305 garvures sur bois dans le texte. Rousseurs affectant les marges en particulier dans le premier volume
149378274Nürnberg 1493. Originalt tresnitt med nyere kolorering. Folio. Arkets størrelse : 276 X 406 cm.Folio. Original woodcut with recent colouring. Size of sheet : 276 X 406 cm. Tysk. <br/><br/><em>Fra Hartmann Schedel : Liber Chronicarum. Utgitt av Anton Koberger i Nürnberg i 1493.“It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum —and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.†Wikipedia.The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger the godfather of Albrecht Dürer who in the year of Dürer's birth in 1471 ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany eventually owning 24 printing presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad from Lyon to Budapest. Wikipedia.The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut then Nuremberg's leading artist in various media provided the unprecedented 1809 woodcut illustrations. Wikipedia.Utbedret rift ved nedre marg.Tear repaired at lower margin. </em> unknown
RARE LIMITED EDITION OF 435 COPIES - COPY No.236 of a book set in British-ruled Palestine, written by Goncourt prize winners - the brothers Jérome (1874-1953 ) and Jean Tharaud (1877-1952). The exquisite illustrations are by two eminent French artists: the Orientalist painter and illustrator André Suréda (1872-1930) and the graphic artist Georges Beltrand (1881-1969). 300x215mm. 164 pages. Red leather Hardcover with gilt spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover and spine stained, rubbed/scratched and fading/yellowing. Cover corner bumped and peeling. Cover upper edge rubbed. Spine hinges upper part cracked and glued. Spine edge bumped and peeling/tattered. Pages slightly yellowing and rough-cut as published. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare deluxe edition of a lavishly illustrated book about the Holy Land is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
2 volumes In-4, XXXVI-203; XXIII-169p. Edition limitée à 1000 exemplaires numérotés. Tome 1: La porte d'entrée Jaffa. Tome 2: Jaffa la belle. Une somme de 820 photographies de l'auteur, tirées en héliogravure et légendées par un extrait de la Bible, du Talmud ou du Coran. Tranches et marges piquées, sinon très bel exemplaire.
Original Wraps. 8vo. [4], 26, [2] pages. 17 x 24 cm. First edition. "Drawings by Otte Wallisch; text by E. Mechner. " Eretz Israel, Facts and Figures, published by the Head Offices of Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, Jerusalem, 5698 (1937/38) ; distributed by the United Palestine Appeal, New York City. $4, 500, 000 in 1938 is the goal of United Palestine Appeal - p. [2]. Illustrated brochure by the United Palestine Appeal detailing the cultural and material progress, immigration statistics and demographics, agricultural and industrial developement, development of Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, J. N. F. Land, etc. Each page contains graphs, maps, charts, or other illustrations to depict the figures. Otte Wallish (19031977) was an emigre to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state . In 1936, Wallish set up a design studio in a building in Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv, that had been chosen as a national landmark. His design studio doubled as a kind of front for SHA'I, the Haganah's secret service . Wallish was responsible for the calligraphy and design of the scroll for Israel's Declaration of Independence. In addition, Walisch handled the preparation of the exhibit hall in which the State's Independence was announced. In 1948, too, Wallish took the lead in designing Israel's first postage stamps. He chose a design based on ancient coins, found in archaeological research on the First Jewish-Roman War and the Bar Kochba Revolt . Wallish continued to be a leading designer of Israeli stamps . Israel's first coins were designed from a proposal submitted by Israel Numismatic Society proposal, put together with Leo Kadman, Hanan Pavel, and Wallish. He also designed paper currency for Israel . Over the years, Wallish also designed posters. For instance, one poster shows the Jewish immigration by ship and another promotes the ZIM shipping line. His posters have been featured in exhibition and the 1997 Selling Zionism exhibit at the Israel Museum. In 2006, a Wallish poster was shown at The New Hebrews: 100 Years of Art in Israel exhibit, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin . His posters are displayed as well at the Central Zionist Archives and the Tel Aviv Museum (Wikipedia 2015) . Subjects: Keren Hayesod; Jewish National Fund; United Israel Appeal. Oclc lists 11 copies. Light wear to wraps, institutional stamp on verso of title page, otherwise clean. Very good condition. (ZION-7-43)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 47 pages ; 19 cm. In English. Herzls testimony, as well as a transcript of a question and answer session with the Zionist leader before the British Royal Commission in 1902 to discuss the Jewish Question in Europe and the Likelihood of ongoing Jewish immigration to Britain. With an introduction from Jacob De Haas, the secretary of the First Zionist Congress. In his testimony Herzl says, The fact that there is now for the first time since Cromwell a perceptible number of our people in England is the true cause of this Commission being called together. Those who deny this are, I feel quite certain, perfectly sincere. When they cry out about Alien Immigration, they are quite unconscious of the true cause of their complaint. They feel the pain and they point to the place which hurts But I think it right to say that the mere establishment of this Commission has created a difficulty (The) Commission must either recommend restrictive legislation or not . To keep out the poor oppressed Jews cannot, I believe, be successful. But if restrictive legislation is not recommended, there mere fact of this Commission having sat will give an impetus to immigration to England; it will have formed an additional notification of the desirability of England as a place for emigration. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Small tears along the top of a few pages with no test effected. Overall good+ condition. (SPEC-42-26)
First edition. Original paper wrappers, in later pamphlet protector. 8vo. 21 pages; 23 cm. Written in Hebrew with additional title pages in English at back. English title: H. Lewy: Memorial addresses by J. L. Magnes, M. Schwabe, and G. Scholem. Includes a list of Lewys scientific publications in many languages at the back. Dr. Hans (Yohanan) Lewy was a prolific scholar of classical philology and Jewish Hellenism with a particular focus on Philo. Though he died at only 44, he had an extensive academic career. Judah Leon Magnes was a prominent Reform rabbi in both the United States and Mandatory Palestine. He is best remembered as a leader in the pacifist movement of the World War I period, his advocacy of a binational Jewish-Arab state in Palestine, and as one of the most widely recognized voices of 20th century American Reform Judaism (Wikipedia, 2016) . Moshe Schwabe was a German-Israeli classical scholar and epigraphists (Wikipedia, 2016) . Gershom Scholem was a German-Israeli philosopher, widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, became the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Wikipedia, 2016) . He was close friends with Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss and published works including Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) , Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1957) , and On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965) . Includes black-and-white headshot of Lewy. SUBJECT(S) : Hans Lewy. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Slight browning of original paper wrappers. Several library markings including stamps and stickers. Minimal pencil markings that do not obscure text. Good + condition. A Very Rare Gershom Scholem imprint (zion-12-14)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 10 issues, approximately 40-50 pages each with multiple pages of advertisements from the period, 24 cm. Published every two weeks by the Department of Commerce and Industry (1922-24) and the Department of Customs, Excise and Trade (1924-1931) . SUBJECTS: Palestine -- Commerce -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 16 holdings worldwide, most appear to be incomplete (OCLC: 162116616) . Wrappers have some chips in the margin. Pages browning. All contents are very clear and good. (ZION2-2-19)
First edition. Original blue boards with gold font with beautiful original dust jacket. 8vo. 336 pages; 24 cm. Hitler-era publication, written in German with additional Hebrew title page. Includes a 9 word inscription written and signed by the author to Shalom Spiegel, renowned scholar and professor of Hebrew literature at JTS, in August 1937, just before the start of the war. Dr. Tulo Nussenblatt was a famous Zionist scholar and historian before WWII. During the war, Nussenblatt housed many people in his bunker in the Warsaw ghetto. He died in the uprising, still clutching his briefcase full of book materials about Theodor Herzl, about whom he wrote this book. A biography of Herzl divided into 4 sections with smaller divisions within each. Includes several black-and-white photographs of Herzl, his colleagues, and his possessions, as well as facsimiles of important letters, documents, and objects from his life. SUBJECT (S) : Theodor Herzl, Zionism. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Library markings on spine of book, but not on dust jacket which is very clean. Slight toning. Fading on cover boards on spine and edges. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Good condition in Very Good Jacket. A beautiful inscribed copy. (zion-12-39)
10903Londres, Paris, et en Amérique, Fisher, n. d. (1836-41), in-4°, 80 p. (French text) + 37 plates / 100 p. (French text) + 45 plates + 2 maps, original green cloth bindings, spine and central piece on bookcovers gilt, gilt edges, fine. The fine steel engraved views, altogether 82 including frontispiece titles, and both maps, are taken from the English edition, showing legends in English. Volume 2 and 3 only,a fresh copy, in fine condition.
Later Cloth. 12mo. [9], 96 pages. 18 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Helek Rishon (no more published) . One of the first Hebrew books published on the geography of Eretz Israel. Written by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (18581922) , Hebrew writer and lexicographer, generally considered the father of modern Hebrew, and one of the first active Zionist leaders. Born Eliezer Yizhak Perelman in Luzhky, Lithuania, he officially adopted the pseudonym Ben-Yehuda, which he had previously used in his literary activities, when he went to Palestine. The Ben-Yehuda household thus was the first Hebrew-speaking home established in Palestine, and his first son, Ben-Zion (later called Ithamar Ben-Avi) , the first modern Hebrew-speaking child. - EJ 2008. S. HaLevi 413. A damaged copy sold at auction in 2014 for over USD 550. Subjects: Physical geography - Palestine. Physical geography. Middle East - Palestine. OCLC lists 10 copies. Later boards bowed, first and last pages aged; light soiling and foxing to edges throughout, overall clean. Good + condition. (ZION-8-10)
Features: Title page illustration of a tank stuck in Palestine; Wonderful two-page photo spread illustrates "Men's Work and Women's Work - In England, Ireland, France, and Palestine; The Reappearance of the Zeppelin (article); The Power of the Press - A Complete Journalist (article); Occupied by the Germans - The Aaland Islands (article); Page of six photos regarding Hong King's new Tai Tam Tuk dam and reservoir; Article by G.K. Chesterton includes photos of Sir George Alexander, John Dillon, and Canon Scott Holland; Five photos of the wrecked stained glass of Rheims Cathedral, and related salvage work; Six photos entitle 'Underground on the British Front' illustrate activites in subterranean tunnels and rooms; The New Air Force and Its Future - article; Before and after aerial photos of Merckem in Flanders which was destroyed by shells; Fantastic page of illustrations and text presents some ingenius food substitutes used by 'our ill-fed foes'; Centrefold illustration of British mine-sweeper protecting a neutral cargo ship from a drifting surface mine; Four wonderful half-page photos of the terrain of the Palestine Campaign - a land of wadis, sands and foliage; Fabulous one-page photo of the Mayor of Jerusalem coming out to surrender the city to General Allenby - meeting the first British outposts; Wonderful one-page ad for Beecham's Pills features lady fortune-teller with big hair, crystal ball and playing cards; Nice two-colour back cover ad for Greys cigarettes features illustration of two mounted soldiers circa 1742 in Mitre or Grenadier cap; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages; 18 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era publication from Paris. Title translates to Toward the historic day of judgment, the Jewish people between curses and redemption Published early in the Holocaust, Ben-Adir argues for the enactment of national introspection and calm rather than territorialism! Ben-Adir (18781942) was writer and Jewish socialist leader, born in Krucha, Belorussia. He was a child prodigy and left for university in Minsk at the age of 16. While there, he was heavily influenced by Jewish socialism. After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Ben-Adir published an article advocating political Zionism in opposition to the ideology of Ahad Ha-Am. After then Kishinev pogrom of 1903 Ben-Adir published a call for the formation of a Jewish party which would combine the aims of revolutionary socialism with national Jewish aspirations. Ben-Adir was one of the founders and ideologists of the Vozrozhdeniye group, and of its successor of the Sejmists (Jewish Socialist Workers' Party) whose program included Jewish national-political autonomy while envisaging territorial sovereignty as a remote aim. Ben-Adir stayed in Erets Israel between 1925 and 1927 but returned to Berlin, leaving for Paris in 1933. "Algemeyne geshikhtlekhe perspektivn un problemen -- tsentrale yidishe problem." SUBJECTS: Zionism Jewish nationalism. OCLC Number:19316146. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Minor browning, edgewear to wrappers at corners. Overall Very Good- Condition. (ZION-14-52)
381 pages. "This survey seeks to render an account of what the Congress has labored to achieve (in the twelve years since its constituent meeting)... The realities of Jewish life are rapidly shifting before our very eyes, and soon a new generation will arise which knows not our problems and to which many of our controversies will be incomprehensible... A new leaf has been turned over in the relations beween the various Jewish ideological camps, while the proclamation of the State of Israel deeply affects and colors all aspects of Jewish life everywhere." - from Preface. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound reference copy of this important work. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1842j2p3c10xbvkHalle, Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1842. XIV S. (inkl. Titelblatt), bandübergreifend nummerierte Seiten (479)-1.116 (1); 5 (teils groß-)ausfaltbare geographische Tafeln. - Etwas späterer grüner Halbleineneinband mit schwarzen Buchdeckeln, dezenter Rückenvergoldung und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel; 8vo.(ca. 20,5 x 13 x 3,5 cm).
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Michel the Spy - a remarkable WWI character; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part II - "Shooting" big game with a camera - article with great photos; A Bid for a Bride - love finds a way in the lonely outpost of Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Four-Figure Milestones; Seeking Six Million Pounds - recovering gold and silver from the White Star liner 'Laurentic' which was sunk off the coast of Ireland in January 1917; Through the East By Air - Part IV - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; Diamond Cut Diamond - farmhand matches wits with farmer who cheats his men of their wages; Adrift in Mid-Air - French artilleryman M. Clinckmaille was carried high in the air by a runaway observation balloon - suspended by his leg!; Restoring the Dead to Life! - The Secrets of Katsu, known to the Japanese for two thousand years, but jealously guarded from the outside world - fascinating article with photos; A Race for Life in Death Valley - The ordeal of two motorcyclists who attempted to drive through Death Valley during the hottest month of the year - article with great photos; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part IV - A trap is set for George Keene; Magalloway's Grizzly - life and death encounter with a Wyoming rancher; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Octavo. Pp. 539, (1) errata. Plus a fold-out lithograph map "Tabula geographica Marini Sanuti" bound at end. Hardcover, bound in contemporary diaper-grain half cloth and marbled boards, spine with decorated gilt morocco label and two small round paper labels, one rubbed and partly removed, old institutional bookplate and stamps to front paste-down, some annotations in a very neat contemporary hand to title and elsewhere, some browning and spotting. In about fine condition. Attractive copy, very well preserved. ~ First edition. In this book Tobler studies, edits, and prepares for publication an 8th-century manuscript by S. Willibaldus; the 9th-century Commemoratorium de casis Dei, and a manuscript by Bernardus Monachus; the 12th-century Innominatus VII and VIII, a manuscript by Johannes Wirziburgensis, and the La Citez de Iherusalem; and a 15th-century manuscript by Johannes Poloner. They are published here in the original Latin. The second part of the book is Tobler's commentary, in German. Born in 1806, Tobler studied medicine in Zurich, Vienna, and Paris. Worked as a practising physician. In 1835 he visited Palestine for the first time, and published his travelogue in "Lustreise in Morgenland". In 1845, 1857 and 1865 made further journeys to Palestine. Beside his own travelogues he edited older travel descriptions of Palestine and published a bibliography of the Palestine literature. He died in 1877.
