(“The Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Tzurath Beith HaMikdash He’Athid [on the design of the third Temple].

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 125
HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN.

(“The Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Tzurath Beith HaMikdash He’Athid [on the design of the third Temple].

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Title within architectural arch. Illustrations and diagrams of the Temple within the text. Wide margins. Folded at end <<a unique large engraved explanatory diagram of the Temple>> . A wide-margined copy. Fold out diagram (21 x 16 inches) in <<crisp, clean condition.>> ff. (36, 1). Previous owner’s signature in an Italian hand on title, browned, few expert paper repairs to lower margin of engraving. Later boards. Sm. 4to. Housed in modern slip-case. Vinograd, Prague 120; Mehlman 646; St. Cat. Bodl. 5853,12.

Prague: Abraham ben Moshe 1602

Est: $40,000 - $60,000
PRICE REALIZED $47,500
<<A unique copy appended with an entirely unrecorded engraved diagram of the future Temple in Jerusalem>> . No other recorded copies - including those in all major libraries world-wide - contain this fascinating fold-out. Based upon the Book of Ezekiel chaps. 40-43, an analysis on the design of the Third Temple to be erected following the arrival of the Messiah. The author, the celebrated R. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (1579-1654), notes beneath the Temple engraving, that details relating to measurements and other specifics can be found within the book itself. Clearly, the great Rabbi was deeply involved in the execution of this fascinating schematic map of the future Temple, produced as it was, in the Author’s life-time. The diagram was issued by the printer Abraham ben Moshe along with the the assistance of his brother Yehudah Leib. <<It is entirely unrecorded by all bibliographers.>> <<An extraordinary unicum.>>