Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici [“Tombs of the Hebrews].

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Lot 177

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici [“Tombs of the Hebrews].

Second edition. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic. Four engraved plates (three double-page), one depicting Jewish tombs and monuments, another of ancient Judean coins. ff. 13, pp. 188, ff. 4. Foxed. Contemporary shhep, rubbed. 12mo. Tobler 71; Freimann, 195.

Heidelberg: Samuel Broun 1662

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $850

Cippi Hebraici is a Latin translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575 - no copy extant); a description of the graves of the righteous and of the Holy Places of Eretz Israel. It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazic Community of Safed. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977), pp. 80 and 248. The expanded notes in the present edition are of scholarly and archaeological interest.