Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 108

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon

FIRST EDITION. Additional allegorical title and armorial frontispiece. 24 double-paged engraved maps including foldout map of Solomon’s Temple; 3 doubled-paged plates of Temple artifacts. Without foldout map of Holy Land preceding p.1 (Laor 278). Head- and tailpieces; historiated initials. Scattered Latin marginalia ff. (4), (1), pp. 439, (7), 202, (21). pp. 83-84 torn. A few minor stains. Modern calf. Folio Laor 279-295 (individual maps for each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel), 1024-5 (plans of Jerusalem and Holy Temple); K. Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 128-131

London: J.F. for John Williams 1650

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

"Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land" (Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land) Thomas Fuller (1608-61), an English scholar and preacher, composed Pisgah-Sight during his exile from Cromwellian England. Fuller included maps of ancient Egypt and Lebanon, as well as views of the Tabernacle in the Desert, the priestly vestments and Temple vessels. See Congregation Emanu-El Exhibition Catalogue, Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th-19th Centuries (2002) no. 22