Die Alten Juedischen Heiligthuemer [The Ancient Jewish Shrine]

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 231

LUND, JOHANNES

Die Alten Juedischen Heiligthuemer [The Ancient Jewish Shrine]

German. Frontispiece portrait of author and numerous fine engravings (few folding) by J.W. Michaelis. Title in red and black. Printed in double columns pp. (44), 1090, (140). Ex-library. Browned. Contemporary vellum, detached. Thick folio Freimann, p. 178

Hamburg: Gottfried Liebernickel 1704

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

Detailed examination by the Danish Lutheran theologian Johannes Lund (1638-1686), of ancient and contemporary Jewish practice with special emphasis on the Temple cult including the construction of the Tabernacle, the holy vessels and sacerdotal vestments