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

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 318
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, 27 double-paged plates including maps of Israel and a fold-out map of Solomon’s Temple, 3 doubled-paged plates of Temple artifacts, a plate of a coat-of-arms, head- and tailpieces historiated initials <<ALL HANDCOLORED>> . Bookplates, including Walter T. Shirley. Few light stains in places. Reverse-calf, rubbed. Folio. Housed in folding-case. Laor 278-295 (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. 128-31.

London: J.F. for John Williams 1650

Est: $10,000 - $15,000
PRICE REALIZED $24,000
“Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land” (Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land). <<A REMARKABLE COPY. FINELY HAND-COLORED THROUGHOUT.