Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Fuller Thomas (1608-1661)
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine.

London: M[iles] F[lesher] for John Williams, 1650.

First edition, folio, engraved general title page; illustrated with one larger folding map and 27 double-plate plates, the vast majority are maps; leaves Yy3 & Yy4 supplied from another copy; bound in contemporary calf boards, rebacked; (worn, rubbed, an older repair; contents toned with the occasional tear, sometimes with loss to a blank margin); 13 x 8 1/2 in.

Wing F-2455; ESTC R18096.

"This curious and singular work is not a mere geographical work, but contains many things relating to Jewish antiquities, and to the manners and customs of the people." (Lowndes)