Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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Lot 93

GOEREE, WILLEM & DAVID.

Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Four volumes. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices. Historiated initials. Additional copper engraved title pages and frontispieces, numerous full-page plates (i.e. maps), many folding, as well as numerous text illustrations, decorated initials and tailpieces. * Vol. I: pp. (54), 728, (20). * Vol. II: pp. (12), 804, (20). * Vol. III: pp. (16), 755, (17). * Vol. IV: pp. (12), 693, (15). With 41 fold-out plates, 16 full-page plates, 11 half-page plates all executed by <<Jan Luyken.>> Light wear, few tears. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly buckled, discolored, upper portion of spine of vol. III defective. Folio.

Amsterdam: 1700

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

A handsome set, in an attractive contemporary vellum binding of the first edition of this grand publication by Dutch scholar Willem Goeree (1635-1711). An important study on Jewish (and surrounding) antiquities. Scenes of the charming copper engravings fold-outs include scenes of the Patriarch Jacob, the Ten Plagues, the Perigrination of the Jews in the Wilderness, the Tabernacle, and the Desert Encampment.