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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). FULLER, THOMAS. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon. First Edition. Additional armorial title, 27 double-paged plates including maps of Israel and a fold-out map of Solomon’s Temple, 3 doubled-paged plates of Temple artifacts, a plate of a coat-of-arms, head- and tailpieces historiated initials. Large folding map in front. pp. (12), 439, 202, (18). Stained in places, few short tears. Recent calf-backed boards, rubbed. Folio. Laor 278-295 (individual maps for each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel), 1024-5 (plans of Jerusalem and Holy Temple); K. Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 128-31. London, J.F. for John Williams, 1650. “Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land” (Nebenzahl). Thomas Fuller (1608-61) was an English scholar and preacher. He composed Pisgah-Sight, which abounds with a wry humor, during his exile from Cromwellian England. Fuller included maps of ancient Egypt and Lebanon, as well as views of the Tabernacle in the Desert, the priestly vestments and Temple vessels. See Congregation Emanu-El Exhibition Catalogue, Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th-19th Centuries (2002) no. 22.