JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM

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Levush Ha’orah [Elucidations and novellea on the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut Map Of The Land Of IsraeL (f.84v). With another woodcut text-illustration of a palm of a hand on f.(5)v. Printer’s device on recto of final leaf. ff.91,(9). Neat paper repair to final leaf. [Vinograd, Prague 123]. Prague, Abraham ben Moses Sidel, 1604. * ALGAZI, SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM. Ahavath Olam [sermons and homiles]. Second Edition. ff. 125. [Vinograd, Dyhernfurt 31]. Dyhernfurt, Sabbathai Bass, 1692

Levush Ha’orah with woodcut map of the Land of Israel and surrounding Nations charting the travels of the Children of Israel. An important map, decorative and clearly defined, depicting ships riding the seas and cities depicted by towers adorned with flags, smaller cities showing smaller houses - an altogether sophisticated representation. The details of the map were entirely based on information derived from the Bible and its commentaries, for, as E. & G. Wajntraub point out in their Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp.41 “it was not possible to draw eye-witness reports, and all geographical data is based on geographical knowledge of the Bible.”