ZIEGLER, JACOB.

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

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

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ZIEGLER, JACOB.

Five (of 8) woodcut maps. <<*>> (1) Continet Syriam… Damascum, Carras Mesopotamiae, Et Cypri… <<*>> (2) Constinet Partem Phoeniciae, Galilaeam utrancq. superiorem & inferiorem. <<*>> (3) Tercia tabula continet Samariam, Tribus autem Isaschar rursus explicatam… <<*>> (4) Continet Iudeam proprie dictam. Tribus autem, Partem rursus Ephraim… <<*>> (5) Universalis Palaestinae, continens superiores partuculares tabulas. (Each) 10 x 14.5 inches.

Strassburg, Petrus Opilius, 1532:

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

From: Quae Intus Continentur Syria, Palestine, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae, Regionum Superiorum (= Schondia). Jacob Ziegler (1470-1549) was a German theologian, mathematician, astronomer, geographer and humanist. These maps were the first to display the Holy Land featuring magnetic and other physical forces.