Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

printer

Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1574

Description

Title with printer’s mark. Map of Eretz Israel on f. 235a

references

Vinograd, Venice 592

summary

Elijah Mizrachi’s map of Eretz Israel is the first printed map on the Holy Land and first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it accurately describes the borders of Eretz Israel and the places mentioned in Deuteronomy. See: E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp.19-21

ff. 266. Title and final leaf provided from a shorter copy and slightly repaired, stained. Modern calf. Folio

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