De Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano [“Of the Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple in the Arch of Titus.”]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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

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RELAND, HADRIAN.

De Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano [“Of the Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple in the Arch of Titus.”]

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with Greek and Hebrew. Several foldout engravings of Temple vessels and appurtenances. Extensive Latin marginalia in an old hand pp. (4), 138, (26). Contemporary vellum. 12mo

Utrecht: William Broedelet 1716

Est: $400 - $600

Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was Professor of Oriental Languages and Antiquities at Utrecht. Reland drew upon a vast array of classical authors, Talmudic literature and church historians, which he quotes in the original. See EJ, Vol. XIV, col. 64.