Maps Of The Holy Land. Images Of Terra Sancta Through Two Millennia

KENNETH NEBENZAHL

Publication: Abbeville Press, 1986, New York

First edition. Folio. Signed by the author on the title page Original prospectus laid-in. Black cloth with front cover images struck in blind, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, bluish-green front and rear endpapers, color frontispiece, introduction, 164 pp., illustrated mostly in color, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. Contains sixty of the most beautiful and historically significant Holy Land maps, rare treasures of manuscript illumination and masterpieces of early printing are presented here. Begins with Claudius Ptolemy's map of 150 A. D., 1475 map of Palestine by Lucas Brandis and Canaan 1572, the first Holy Land map printed by an Englishman, Humphrey Cole, and much more. Fine in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 49273