Ben-Uri, Meir. Lshon Beniyah Ba’torah Ha’kiyor Ve’kano

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 213

(JEWISH ART)

Ben-Uri, Meir. Lshon Beniyah Ba’torah Ha’kiyor Ve’kano

Handcolored lithograph. Replete with detailed draft-drawings of the sacred objects of Solomon’s Temple. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author to A. M. Haberman on wrapper. With manuscript mathematical notes to Yonah Emanuel, editor of Hama’ayan ff. (9). Contemporary wrappers. Sm. 4to

Haifa: Ha’machon Le’omanut Datit 1968

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $150

With attractive and accurate architectural draft drawings to scale of the Temple wash-basin and its base, used by the Priests to wash their hands and feet simultaneously. The mathematical proportions of the basin prove the Temple architects had knowledge of the Phi mathematical constant