Bennett, Solomon. The Temple of Ezekiel: A Minute Description of the Edifice on Scientific Principles Illustrated by a Ground Plan and Bird’s-Eye View. With an Appendix… on the Authenticity of the Book of Daniel.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

printer

A.J. Valfy

Place

London

Publication

1824

Description

FIRST EDITION. With large foldout engraving of the ground plan of the Temple of Ezekiel.

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca, p. 333, no. 28; JE, Vol. III, p. 37.

summary

“This work… was conceived, designed and executed entirely out of [the author’s] own interpretation of the scriptural record and rabbinic commentaries. It is a masterpiece both of imagination and technique, and it is accompanied by a ground plan which implies a sound knowledge of architectural draftmanship” (p. 96).

pp. vii, 157, (2). Frontispiece portrait provided in facsimile, foxed and stained, foldout repaired. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, repaired along extremities. Lg. 4to.

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