Jerusalem Explored Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City: With Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans, and Sections (2 volumes)

Ermete Pierotti; Thomas George Bonney

London : Bell and Daldy; Cambridge, 1864

2 volume set. Folios.  Bound in contemporary leather backed, blue boards.  Good binding and cover to vol. 1. V.2 plates are loose.  Peabody Institute stamps on versos.  Volume I: XII, 339, [1] pp. Vol II: [8], [63] pp + LXIII lithographic plates.  Maps, plans, folding plates, tinted views. The plates include Mount Zion, David's Tomb, Jewish Hospital Misgav Ladach, Absalom's Tomb and other sites; includes a large panorama of Jerusalem from Mount of Olives. Pierotti arrived in Jerusalem in 1854 and served as a consultant to the renovation works of the Temple Mount. He appointed as the City Engineer of Jerusalem. This position enabled him to visit sites which were closed to western scholars, in particular the Temple Mount and the Mosques. 

Refs: Blackmer 1309. Rohricht 2406; Tobler, p. 189. 

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