SIMONIS, JOHANN. Onomasticum Veteris Testamenti sive Tractatus Philologicus. pp. (16), 644, (118). * Bound with: SIMONIS, JOHANN, Onomasticum Novi Testamenti. pp. 3, 206, (8)

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $18,000

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Place

Halle

Publication

1741-42

Description

Title in red and black. Latin interspersed with Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic and Greek. Engraved frontispiece map of the Land of Israel with place-names and divisions by tribe in Hebrew, covered by a grape vine in depiction of Psalms 80:9-12, all within ornate frame

references

Laor 730; E. and G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), w.28 (p. 67)

summary

THE CELEBRATED “GRAPE VINE MAP” OF THE HOLY LAND. HIGHLY UNCOMMON This is one of very few pre-19th century Holy land captioned in Hebrew

Stained. Contemporary calf, cracked. 4to

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