SCHWARZ, JOSEPH. Tevu'oth ha-Aretz [“Produce of the Land”]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 172

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

SCHWARZ, JOSEPH. Tevu'oth ha-Aretz [“Produce of the Land”]

Two divisional titles (“Totza'oth ha-Aretz,” regarding fauna, flora and minerals of the Land; and “Ma'aseh ha-Aretz,” a chronology of the Land from the destruction of the Second Temple to the present) ff. (2), 156, 52, (4). Title torn ff. 72-73 torn with minor loss of text. Marbled boards, peeling. 8vo Halevy 31

Jerusalem, : I. Bak 1845

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

On f.192 passage removed as offensive to Christianity, here replaced by hand. In this passage Schwarz sought to demonstrate that Jesus was not buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. According to Schwarz, this notion was foisted by Helena and her son Emperor Constantine. Other instances where passages offensive to Christians were struck are f.27r. and f.32r