Auction 58 · Lot 318
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon.
- Estimate
- $10,000–$15,000
- Hammer price
- $24,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
FULLER, THOMAS.
printer
J.F. for John Williams
Place
London
Publication
1650
Description
FIRST EDITION . Additional allegorical title, 27 double-paged plates including maps of Israel and a fold-out map of Solomon’s Temple, 3 doubled-paged plates of Temple artifacts, a plate of a coat-of-arms, head- and tailpieces historiated initials ALL HANDCOLORED . Bookplates, including Walter T. Shirley.
references
Laor 278-295 (individual maps for each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel), 1024-5 (plans of Jerusalem and Holy Temple); K. Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 128-31.
summary
“Pisgah-Sight is one of the great books on the typography of the Holy Land” (Nebenzahl, Maps of the Holy Land).
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Few light stains in places. Reverse-calf, rubbed. Folio. Housed in folding-case.
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