Die Alten Juedischen Heiligthuemer

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 243

LUND, JOHANNES

Die Alten Juedischen Heiligthuemer

Frontispiece portrait of author and numerous fine engravings (few folding) by J.W. Michaelis. Title in red and black. Printed in double columns pp. (40), 1090, (142). Browned. Edges gilt and gauffered. Contemporary half-calf, worn. Thick folio Freimann, p. 178

Hamburg: Johann Wolffgang Fickweiler 1722

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

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