Wild Flowers of The Holy Land.

ZELLER, Mrs. Hannah. Preface by H. B. Tristram. Introduction by Edward Atkinson.

$400.00

Item Number: 146422

London: James Nisbet and Co, 1883.

Third edition of this classic work on the field flowers of Palestine. Quarto, original publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, illustrated with fifty-four tissue-guarded plates by Hannah Zeller of Nazareth printed in color comprising detailed botanical illustrations of the flora of the Holy Land including the Palestine Bramble, Thistle, Egyptian Thrift, Apple of Sodom, Pink Anemone, Oleander, Wild Flax, Persian Cyclamen, Pomegranate, Hollyhock, Blue Lupin, and Indian Sage. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. A very bright example, rare in this condition.

"The aim of Mrs. Zeller has been, not to select the most gorgeous or the rarest, but to give a fair representation, if I may so speak, of the every-day Flora of the Holy Land. The gorgeous asclepaids, the gigantic orobanches, the magnificent ipomeas of the Jordan valley she has passed by, in order to cull those familiar flowers which carpet the soil or fringe the wayside in every plain and dell" (H.B. Tristram, Preface).