Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. Fifty-Four Plates Printed in Colours, Drawn and Painted after Nature.

ZELLER, Hannah.

Edité par LondonJames Nisbet and Co. ., 1880

4to. (26 x 19 cm). pp.xiv+[54, plates]. Publisher's original brown cloth, upper cover decorated in black and gilt, spine with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. 54 colour-printed botanical plates, all with tissue guards, each captioned in English, French, German, and Latin. Ex libris the Harrison Zoological Museun, with their stamp to flyleaf; additional old ownership inscription to front pastedown. Some trivial bruising to corners, generally an excellent copy. Wild Flowers of Palestine was originally published around 1876 in three editions in English, French, and German. It contains fifty-four plates printed in colour, after drawings and paintings by a Swiss missionary, Hanna Zeller, then resident in Nazareth, Palestine. Hanna Zeller (née Gobat) was born in the winter of 1838-1839 in Beuggen, Switzerland, daughter of Bishop Samuel Gobat of Jerusalem who was the founder of the first Christian school in Jerusalem in 1847. In 1859 Hanna married Reverend John Zeller, a Swiss missionary known as the 'Missionary of Nazareth'. Both her father and husband were great pioneers and promoters of education and teachers' training. They were both instrumental in the development of educational institutions in the area. At a time when women's missionary work was a conspicuous feature in the development of the Mission in Palestine, Hanna Zeller one of the earliest women members of the Church Missionary Society of Palestine. It was during her time working there that she depicted the beauty of the ora of the Holy Land through the ne paintings represented in this volume. N° de réf. du vendeur 64843

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Titre : Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. Fifty-Four ...
Éditeur : LondonJames Nisbet and Co. .
Date d'édition : 1880
Reliure : Couverture rigide