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IN HEBREW. RARE FIRST EDITION of the comprehensive atlas of Israel covering all fields from physical, human and economic geography, to history, geology and geomorphology, botany and zoology, with numerous detailed large size maps. [SECTION EDITORS]: Cartography - Joseph Elster, Geomorphology - David H.K.Amiran, Geology - Leo Picard, Climate - Naftali Rosenan, Hydrology - Martin Julius Goldschmidt, Botany - Michael Zohary, Zoology - Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer, Land Utilization - Isaac Schattner, History - Michael Avi-Yonah, Population - Mordehai Gilead, Settlements - Joseph Elster, Agriculture - Emil Louis Levie, Industry and Trade - Yitzhak Guelfat, Communications - Yehuda Karmon, Services - Helmut Muhsam [Muehsam]. 490x405mm. Unpaginated (ca.208 large double pages with ca.500 maps and explanatory texts). Red cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Jacket wrinkled, scratched and rubbed. Jacket edges and corners tattered and partly taped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Front inner cover edge scratched. Whitepages slightly dirty. Pages fore edge wrinkled/slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare, large and comprehensive atlas of Israel, an important source of reference for scholars of Israel and the Middle East, is in good condition.