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

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 109

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

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 armorial frontispiece and allegorical title. 27 double-paged engraved maps, views, Temple plans and artifacts. 2 foldout maps: One of the Holy Land preceding p.1, tipped in (with minor repair); Second, of Canaan with applied color. Scattered Latin marginalia. Worn and stained in places, title with embossed stamp and two small areas excissed. Contemporary calf, recased. Folio. Laor 278-295.

London: J.F. for John Williams 1650

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

“Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land” (Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 128-131). Thomas Fuller (1608-61) was an English scholar and preacher. He composed Pisgah-Sight, which abounds with a wry humor, during his exile from Cromwellian England. Fuller included maps of ancient Egypt and Lebanon, as well as views of the Tabernacle in the Desert, the priestly vestments and Temple vessels. See Congregation Emanu-El Exhibition Catalogue, Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th-19th Centuries (2002) no. 22.