Bennett, Solomon. The Temple of Ezekiel: A Minute Description of the Edifice on Scientific Principles Illustrated by a Ground Plan and Bird’s-Eye View. With an Appendix… on the Authenticity of the Book of Daniel.

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 276

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Bennett, Solomon. The Temple of Ezekiel: A Minute Description of the Edifice on Scientific Principles Illustrated by a Ground Plan and Bird’s-Eye View. With an Appendix… on the Authenticity of the Book of Daniel.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With large foldout engraving of the ground plan of the Temple of Ezekiel. pp. vii, 157, (2). Frontispiece portrait provided in facsimile, foxed and stained, foldout repaired. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, repaired along extremities. Lg. 4to. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca, p. 333, no. 28; JE, Vol. III, p. 37.

London: A.J. Valfy 1824

Est: $600 - $900

“This work… was conceived, designed and executed entirely out of [the author’s] own interpretation of the scriptural record and rabbinic commentaries. It is a masterpiece both of imagination and technique, and it is accompanied by a ground plan which implies a sound knowledge of architectural draftmanship” (p. 96).