The folk lore and folk uses of plants in Palestine. Contents: The Peasant's Year in Proverb and Saying; Corn, Wine and Oil; Wild Foods; Plants with Folk Uses; Medicinal Plants; Sacred Trees and Magical Plants; El Khadr; The Legend of Lot and the Tree of the Cross.

The Peasant's Year in Palestine has two chief divisions, Summer and Winter. "Six months summer and six months winter" (sitte shuhur sef sitte shuhur shita) as they say. We translate the word "shita" (lit: rain) by winter feeling how absurd it is so to call the glorious procession of spring months, but the peasant, of course, in his use of the word is thinking all the while of the rain, and is still hoping for a shower or two even as late as April.

רוצים לבצע הזמנה טלפונית? שילחו לנו את מספר הטלפון שלכם ואנו נתקשר אליכם בהקדם. המחיר למשלמים בשקלים: 60 ש"ח + 10 ש"ח משלוח בדואר

This is a collection of thirty-two wild flowers from Mt. Carmel. They are here reproduced as they appear in their natural surroundings on Mt. Carmel. The illustration endeavor a faithful reproduction of the original colouring and botanical structure. The accompanying text gives brief information about each flower. Translated from Hebrew.

24 line drawings of different animals.

`Go Forth to the Land That I Will Show You`
The beginning of the history of the children of Israel as told in the Bible dates back to Abraham, the first Patriarch, who lived in Mesopotamia around the 17th century B.C.E. Heeding the words of the Lord, he took his wife, Sarah, and his nephew, Lot, and departed for a new Land. `When they arrived in the land of Canan, Abraham passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh.` (Genesis 12:5-6). Why specify that Abraham camped `at the oak of Moreh`? The sentence which follows is the key: `The Canananites were then in the land.`
Abraham came into Canaan with `cattle, silver and gold.` (Genesis 13:2) Had he camped near the existing Caanite settlements, his flocks would have caused great damage to the local crops.

Short essays that bring to life the plants and animals most characteristic or most numerous in Israel. The book takes the reader through the year, plants usually being mentioned at the time of flowering, birds when they visit the country or when they nest.  This book is based on a column which appeared in The Jerusalem Post for 12 years,

170 pages + 24 Hebrew pages, paperback, very good condition. Rare book.

Full color illustrations and descriptive texts that potray many of the animals known in biblical days that still exist.

Proceedings of the international Seminar on Birds and Flight Safety in the Middle East, held in Israel, April 25-29, 1999. From the table of contents: Developing a Real Time Warning System in the Middle East - From Vision to Reality / Yossi Leshem; The Royal Netherlands Air Force: Two Decades of Bird Strike Prevention "En Route" / Luit S. Buurma; Review of 100 Years of Military and Civilian Bird Strikes / John Thrope; Aerodrome Bird Hazard Prevention: Case Study at John F. Kennedy International Airport / Richard A. Dolbeer; Conflict in the Royal Jordanian Air Force / Col. Malik Salamah Habashneeh; Twenty-Eight Years of Birdstrike Damage in the Israel Air Force 1972-1999; and more.

309 pages, softcover, very good condition.

The Wadi was old in the time sense of living things before the first animals came to live there. The wadi is older now, even in the time sense of places, and nothing much has happened to change it. True, the lion and the bear long ago disappeared from the area and the trees are the poorer for the lack of a chattering aquirrel in their branches, yet the animals of Addulam live out their lives much as did their ancestors in long forgotten days.

Color illustrations of plants (mostly trees) referred to in the Bible. Each plant is illustrated in its natural surroundings and accompanied by explanatory texts. Water colours and drawings: David Lavie. Explanatory text: Menachem Zaharoni and Se'ev Berlinger.

102 pages, hardcover, 30 cm tall, good condition: pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight with some rubbing to cover..

Colour Photographs of Israeli landscapes, nature, animals and birds. With explanatory texts by the photographer and related biblical citations. Photograpgher Gail Rubin was born in New York. In June of 1969 she came to Israel for a vacation and was so taken by the country that she decided to stay on and became a photojournalist. On March 11, 1978, she was shot down by terrorists while photographing birds in Ma`agan Michael.

When we were young, we loved to wander barefoot along its shores, through the damp weeds, across the slick mudflats of our small lake - Lake Huleh in the Galilee.

Contents: Origin, Distribution and Varieties in Antiquity; Legends of Origin; In the Ancient Middle East; The Name; In Ancient Hebrew Literatue; Sayings and Verses in Other Languages; Ancient Medicinal and Cosmetic Uses; The Rose in Food and Drink; In Hebrew Poetry and Art; From the Destruction of the Second Temple to the Nineteenth Century; Before the British Mandate; The British Mandate; The State of Israel.

Contents: Origin, Distribution and Varieties in Antiquity; Legends of Origin; In the Ancient Middle East; The Name; In Ancient Hebrew Literature; Sayings and Verse in Other Languages; Ancient Medicinal and Cosmetic Uses; The Rose in Food and Drink; In Hebrew Poetry and Art; From the Destruction of the Second Temple to the Nineteenth Century; Before the British Mandate; The British Mandate; The State of Israel.

The rose, Hebrew `vered`, Arabic `uard`, belongs to the Rosaceae. It grows spontaneously in diverse places - Asia, Europe, North Africa and North America - which permits the generalization that, geographically, the rose emerged in the lands of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in regions with a temperate climate, but her and there, also in the sub-tropics.

This richly illustrated book describes the flora and fauna of Israel and adjacent areas.The Bible forms the background to the text, which includes Old Testament quotations and references to the everyday animals and plants described within those passages and which can still be seen today.

An archaeologist would be amused by such questions. There is hardly a place or a material object mentioned in the Bible which he cannot produce for inspection - and we do not mean a reconstruction, but the real thing. What place would you fancy? Beth Shean or Megiddo perhaps, or Jaffa, whence Jonah embarked for Ninveh, or the well of Harod from which Gideon`s men drunk? Or perhaps you would like a clay pitcher, penates (ancient houshold gods), letters from ancient Lachish or scrolls from Qumran? They are all to be found here. In the dry air of the Judean desert a mat of rushes was recently found in a state of perfect preservation after 6,000 years, and it can be seen today in the Israel Museum in Jeruslem. And what about the oak and the terebinth, the gazelle and the vulture? Are they legendary or can they be seen today, just as they were then, and thus reveal some new insight into the Bible?

A visual journey into the depths of the Red Sea. The book combines color photography of the weird premival submarine species with a scientific text. The photographs and text are the work of Dr. Davis Darom, who is a marine biologist.

No pagination, hardcover with dust jacket, 8''X7.5'', good condition: some wear to jacket.

The Golden Fleece of Argos, the treasures of El Dorado, the happiness of Bimini, find their counterpart in fabulous Ophir - a land of untold richness and color which existed somewhere to the south on the Red Sea, and which generation after generation of adventutous sailors set out to find.