Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Auction Closed
July 28, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
AL-HARAM AL-SHARIF / TEMPLE MOUNT
A brief guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Supreme Moslem Council, 1929
8vo (238 x 167mm.), photographic illustrations, original wrappers, staples, two hole punches in outer margin affecting one border, lower wrapper with portion of the Supreme Moslem Council stamp torn away, as always
An account written from a largely Muslim perspective, but acknowledging that the building’s “identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute”. Also included in the lot are two contemporary photographs of the Temple Mount district.