The Holy Land in old prints and maps

The Holy Land in old prints and maps
Bound book with gold foil embossing and dust jacket.
521 illustrations and 1 loose illustration on cardboard.
Size: 32.2 x 22.7 x 2 cm
Publisher: Rubin Mass
Number of pages: 220
Weight: 1382 g.

This book is in good/neat condition and has clean and fresh pages. It does have age and user marks and the dust jacket has quite a few tears.

About the book:
Rendered from the Hebrew by Esther Vilnay in collaboration with Max Nurock.

From the dawn of civilization the sites of the Holy Land have been the subject of a pictorial art which can be traced on the earliest monuments of human culture.
This not unmitigated advantage was due to its strategic situation as a buffer-State between the two great powers which contended for supremacy over the ancient world, Egypt and Assyria.

The Pharaohs of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. adorned the walls of their palaces and temples with with bas-reliefs describing their triumphs on foreign battlefields, of which not a few belong to the Palestinian terrain. these pictures, incised on the courses of stone, have remained to this day, among the beautiful ruins of Upper Egypt, a mute testimony of events that fashioned history.




K2 P1