Palestine, lavishly illustrated

Strauß, Friedrich Adolph / Strauß, Otto. Die Länder und Stätten der Heiligen Schrift. In ausgewählten Bildern mit erläuterndem Texte.

$391.00

First edition. Lavishly illustrated work on the Holy Land prepared by the famous Protestant theologian Friedrich Adolph Strauß. The fine steel-engraved illustrations include views of Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Damascus, the interior and exterior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, views of Mount Olivet, the Temple Mount, the Jericho desert, and Mount Sinai, as well as archaeological sites like Abu Simbel, and a violent scene showing the assassination of a Maronite priest and the kidnapping of women by Druzes and Bedouins. The woodcut plates include views of Beirut, Gaza, Hebron, Jericho, and Sidon.

Features the same illustrations as the 1860 work "Das Heilige Land und die heiligen Stätten" by Johann Anton Messmer. The text, however, differs from that of Messmer, stressing the Protestant narrative as opposed to Messmer's Catholic perspective. An important work in an attractive, sumptuously gilt Stockholm binding.