Tracks to the Promised Land: The Land of Israel Ancient Maps, Prints and Travelogues Through the Centuries.

A large-format landscape reference volume titled Tracks to the Promised Land: The Land of Israel Ancient Maps, Prints and Travelogues Through the Centuries. The binding consists of black cloth-backed boards with a central olive-green circular medallion on the front cover, featuring gilt-embossed titles and a stylized illustration of Jerusalem captioned HIERVSALEM. The work serves as a comprehensive guide to historical cartography and art, featuring reproductions of works by Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) and maritime paintings by Willem van de Velde the Younger. Notable sections include Travelers from Afar (1650-1750) and detailed plates from Fuller’s A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, including maps of the tribes of Judah and Simeon. The volume contains numbered pages with detailed descriptions of the included plates. Based on the scale provided by a coin in the images, the book is in a folio or large quarto format.