Be’er Haluchoth.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 308

AUSPITZ, JACOB.

Be’er Haluchoth.

<<Five Hand-Colored Folding Maps in Hebrew>> . Second edition. ff. 8. Extreme lower corners neatly repaired, maps worn and laid down, some tears at folds, few stains. Contemporary boards, worn. 8vo. Vinograd, Vienna 481; Laor 879A, 881, 882A, 883A and 884.

Vienna: Georg Holzinger 1818

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $19,000

<<The first Hebrew Atlas>> . This second edition followed the first produced in Ofen just a year earlier. Both editions are exceptionally rare. “The maps represent: (1) the spread of mankind after the Deluge; (2) the migration of the Hebrew tribes in the desert; (3) their camps; (4) the Mediterranean and the projected division of Palestine; (5) Palestine according to Jewish and Gentile sources.” JE, Vol. II p. 317. Cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37.