SCRIPTURE LANDS: DESCRIBED IN A SERIES OF HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, ALSO ILLUSTRATED BY A COMPLETE BIBLICAL ATLAS COMPRISING 24 MAPS WITH AN INDEX OF REFERENCE — By John Kitto D.D. — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1866 Publisher: Bell & Daldy, London (1866)
In very well preserved condition. Full leather pebbled boards with gilt decorations and raised spine bands; all gilt edges. Boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear. The pages and illustrations and engravings are unusually crisp and clean, save for former owner's name on first blank page. An extensive description of all the major geographical important biblical locations in relation to the events which occurred through on-site observation, archeological research and biblical reference. Exceedingly detailed engravings of maps and illustrations revealing the topographical changes throughout history. Please see below for more information on the author, Adolph Kitto.
Biography
Adolph Kitto (1804 – 1854) English biblical scholar, artist and cartographer
of Cornish decent. Kitto had been a careful observer of physical detail – the
topography, the animals, architecture, agricultural methods, the manner of
interaction between people. His retelling of Bible stories in the light of what
he had seen brought the narratives to life and confirmed the accuracy of the
ancient texts. He showed how the activities described by the prophets and
apostles accorded with the realities of Eastern culture. He supplemented his
own observations with details from the journals of other travellers, and helped
the Bible reader to understand many things previously obscure or contradictory
to the Western mind. His careful research into the geography, biology and
archaeology of Bible lands served to support and encourage confidence in the
accuracy of the Bible.
His Pictorial
Bible and Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature held, for almost a century, a
unique and valued place on the academic library shelf, and his Daily Bible
Illustrations encouraged the faith of readers of all ages and backgrounds, and
stimulated the imagination of many a Sunday school teacher. John Kitto
summed up his life with the following words:
"I perhaps
have as much right as any man that lives, to bear witness that there is no one
so low but that he may rise, no condition so cast down as to be really
hopeless, and no privation which need, of itself, shut out any man from the
paths of honourable exertion or from the hope of usefulness in life. I have
sometimes thought that it was possibly my mission to affirm and establish these
great truths."
