A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof : with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon

Alternate Title:

Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof : with the historie of the Old and New Testament acted thereon

Contributor:

Williams, John, -1683 (bookseller)

Name:

Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1650

Language:

English

Provenance:

Nicoll, James (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy); Fry, Edward, Sir, 1827-1918 (bookplate) (RBC copy); Bevan, Thomas (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Publisher:

Printed by J.F. for John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard

Relation:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323

Subject:

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem); Jews; History; History of Biblical events; Geography; Jews -- History -- Early works to 1800; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 24, 29-48 pages, 49-50 leaves, 55-67 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 73-86, 91-98, 103-116, 121-134, 139-152, 157-166, 171-178, 183-202, 207-222, 227-236, 241-262, 267-288, 293-308, 313-350, 355-374, 379-392 pages, 393-395 leaves, pages 397 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 397-404, 409-439 pages, 1 unnumbered page434, 1 unnumbered page, 38, 43-60, 65-72, 77-92, 97-118, 123-202 pages, 18 unnumbered pages, 30 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans; 34 cm (folio)

Geographic Subject:

Palestine -- Historical geography -- Early works to 1800; Jerusalem -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

With additional engraved title page with imprint: "Printed by M.F. for Iohn Williams at ye Crowne in St. Paules Churchyard"; signed "F. Clein inv." (i.e. Franz Cleyn).; Signatures: pi² A-F⁴ G⁶ H-2H⁴ 2I⁴(2I1+'Ii2'.1) 2K-2R⁴ 2S⁶ 2T-2X⁴ 2Y⁶ 2Z² 3A-4B⁴.; The plates are largely included in the pagination, but disregarded in the signatures resulting in a large discrepancy between the collation by signatures and by pages. Cf. Gibson.; "The description of Mount Libanus" (caption title) begins new pagination; signatures are continuous.; Several errors in paging, including leaves G3, G4, 2S2, 2S3, 2S4 and 2S5 numbered as leaves rather than pages.; Woodcut title vignette, initials, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.; The engraved plates are maps done variously by: John Goddard, William Marshall, Robert Vaughan, Thomas Cross, and Isaac Fuller.; Title within border of double rules; text and printed marginalia within ruled borders.; Errata on leaf 4B4r.; Includes index.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.; Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting.; Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of James Nicoll on title page.; RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Fry on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of Thomas Bevan on front pastedown.; RBC copy has laid in portion of p. 73-74 of an edition of Charles Knight's Old England with reproduction of "Anglo-Saxon Map of the Tenth Century" on p. 73.; RBC copy bound in full leather; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("FULLER'S PISGAH-SIGHT OF PALESTINE") and imprint date stamped in gold on spine.; RBC copy: large folded map at end of preliminaries torn and mended along some folds; tail portion of plan of Solomon's temple (inserted after leaf 2N4) torn along central fold; tail portion of "Pantheon, sive Idola Judeorum" (inserted after leaf 3N3) torn along central fold.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio EC F9595 650p; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio DS104 .F8 1650

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania); Rosengarten Family Fund