Be’er Haluchoth.

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 167

AUSPITZ, JACOB

Be’er Haluchoth.

<<Three Hand-Colored Folding Maps Captioned in Hebrew.>> Letterpress folding chart. <<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. 12 (erroneous pagination). Lacking two additional maps. Stained, small tear to letterpress chart. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn. 8vo.

Ofen, Royal Hungarian University Press, 1817:

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

<<The first Hebrew Atlas.>> The maps represent: The dispersion of the sons of Noah and spread of mankind across Asia, Africa and Europe; the encampment of the Hebrew tribes in the desert surrounding the Tabernacle; and a schematic map of the Land of Israel showing the Tribal division of the country between the Jordan and Mediterranean. This first edition proved immediately popular, so that a second edition appeared in Vienna only a year later. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37 and JE, Vol. II p. 317.