Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Five Books on the subject of Palestine – Prints and Maps – France, 19th Century
Opening: $300
Sold for: Unsold
Five books, including studies dealing with Palestine, its history, sites, inhabitants, fauna and flora, and more; with numerous illustrations, and maps. France and Switzerland, 1854-97. French.
1. La Terre-Sainte et les lieux illustrés par les apôtres, histoire, description, moeurs actuelle, by l'abbé Gr... et A. Egron. Paris [1854]. Foldout map of Palestine and Jerusalem at end.
2. La Terre sainte, son histoire, ses souvenirs, ses sites, ses monuments, by Victor Guérin. Paris, 1882. Noteworthy work by Victor Guérin (1821-1891), a French scholar and amateur archaeologist, for which he earned a prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
3. Jerusalem, by Louis Félicien de Saulcy. Paris, 1882. Map of Jerusalem at end.
4. Le pays des Croisades, by Jules Hoche. Paris, [1885?].
5. Au pays du Christ, by Paul Laufer, with preface by Ernest Favre. Illustrated with "112 compositions and vignettes." La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, [1897?].
Size and condition vary. Books not thoroughly examined; offered as is.
1. La Terre-Sainte et les lieux illustrés par les apôtres, histoire, description, moeurs actuelle, by l'abbé Gr... et A. Egron. Paris [1854]. Foldout map of Palestine and Jerusalem at end.
2. La Terre sainte, son histoire, ses souvenirs, ses sites, ses monuments, by Victor Guérin. Paris, 1882. Noteworthy work by Victor Guérin (1821-1891), a French scholar and amateur archaeologist, for which he earned a prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
3. Jerusalem, by Louis Félicien de Saulcy. Paris, 1882. Map of Jerusalem at end.
4. Le pays des Croisades, by Jules Hoche. Paris, [1885?].
5. Au pays du Christ, by Paul Laufer, with preface by Ernest Favre. Illustrated with "112 compositions and vignettes." La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, [1897?].
Size and condition vary. Books not thoroughly examined; offered as is.
Palestine
Palestine