(“The Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Tzurath Beith HaMikdash He’Athid [on the design of the third Temple].

HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN.

Abraham ben Moshe

Prague

1602

FIRST EDITION . Title within architectural arch. Illustrations and diagrams of the Temple within the text. Wide margins. Folded at end a unique large engraved explanatory diagram of the Temple . A wide-margined copy. Fold out diagram (21 x 16 inches) in crisp, clean condition.

Vinograd, Prague 120; Mehlman 646; St. Cat. Bodl. 5853,12.

A unique copy appended with an entirely unrecorded engraved diagram of the future Temple in Jerusalem . No other recorded copies - including those in all major libraries world-wide - contain this fascinating fold-out. Based upon the Book of Ezekiel chaps. 40-43, an analysis on the design of the Third Temple to be erected following the arrival of the Messiah. The author, the celebrated R. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (1579-1654), notes beneath the Temple engraving, that details relating to measurements and other specifics can be found within the book itself. Clearly, the great Rabbi was deeply involved in the execution of this fascinating schematic map of the future Temple, produced as it was, in the Author’s life-time. The diagram was issued by the printer Abraham ben Moshe along with the the assistance of his brother Yehudah Leib. It is entirely unrecorded by all bibliographers. An extraordinary unicum.