Author: Neil, Rev. James.
Title: Palestine Explored. With a View to Its Present Natural Features, and to the Prevailing Manners, Customs, Rites, and Colloquial Expressions of its People, which Throw Light on the Figurative Language of the Bible.
Description: London, James Nisbet, 1907. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. x, (ii), 319, (2) Publisher's ads. Frontispiece. With 5 full-page illustrations and one sketch map of Jerusalem and environs. Footnotes, indices. HARDCOVER, bound in the original decorated green cloth, spine gilt; stamps to front flyleaf. In a very good condition. ~ Twelfth edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her bookplate pasted onto front paste-down. Neil, the author of the successful "Pictured Palestine", has lived in Jerusalem from 1871 to 1874, and became familiar with the land and its peoples. He returned in 1875 to travel both Egypt and the Holy Land, where he had concluded his writing. F-5 OUT .

Keywords: PALESTINE STUDIES HISTORY HISTORICAL BIBLICAL PALÄSTINA PALESTINA HOLY LAND JEWISH JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM MUSLIM ISRAEL ANCIENT EARLY MIDDLE EAST LEVANT HEILIGEN LANDE BIBLE TESTAMENT ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATIONS NOISBN


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