Be’er Haluchoth.
Auction 94 |
Thursday, June 17th,
2021 at 11:00am
Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx
Lot 34
AUSPITZ, JACOB.
Be’er Haluchoth.
Vienna: Georg Holzinger 1818
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
PRICE REALIZED $14,000
<<The first Hebrew Atlas.>> This second edition followed the first, produced in.
Budapest (Ofen), just a year earlier. Both editions are exceptionally rare.
“The maps represent: (1) the spread of mankind after the Deluge; (2) the migration of the Hebrew tribes in the desert; (3) their camps; (4) the Mediterranean and the projected division of Palestine; (5) Palestine according to Jewish and Gentile sources.”
Cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37. And see JE, Vol. II p. 317.