Victor Guérin - La Terre Sainte

Fascinating original edition illustrated with an impressive number of engravings, including 22 steel engravings hors texte and 310 wood engravings in the text. This monumental sum condenses the observations, research and impressions of one of the greatest French explorers and scholars of the 19th century - Guérin, an archaeologist and historian, travels through Palestine with scientific rigor and a gaze imbued with spirituality, describing with precision the biblical landscapes, ancient ruins, religious monuments and local traditions - The work is distinguished by its encyclopedic ambition: it blends travel narrative, historical erudition, scriptural references and meticulous descriptions of sites, offering the reader a vision that is at once scholarly and sensitive of the Holy Land - This work illustrates the importance of sacred geography in 19th-century culture, where the Holy Land was perceived as a place of universal memory, and it remains today a precious testament to the state of monuments and traditions before the upheavals of the 20th and now the 21st century - Victor Guérin - The Holy Land. Its History, Its Reminiscences, Its Sites, Its Monuments - 1882 - Vol. I - E. Plon and Co - 468 Pages. Good binding condition, volume in its original half-leather binding with marbled boards, wear from handling, some minor defects on the cover, headcaps damaged, corners and joints worn, speckled edges, smooth spine adorned with gilded rules, gilded titling, volume number and author’s name - Good interior condition, some foxing, title page printed in red and black, the work enriched with 22 steel engravings hors texte and 310 wood engravings in the text, marbled endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy – Delivery service available within a few days –

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