Auction 72 · Lot 93
Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.
- Estimate
- $3,000–$5,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
GOEREE, WILLEM & DAVID.
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1700
Description
FIRST EDITION. Four volumes. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices. Historiated initials. Additional copper engraved title pages and frontispieces, numerous full-page plates (i.e. maps), many folding, as well as numerous text illustrations, decorated initials and tailpieces.
* Vol. I: pp. (54), 728, (20). * Vol. II: pp. (12), 804, (20). * Vol. III: pp. (16), 755, (17). * Vol. IV: pp. (12), 693, (15). With 41 fold-out plates, 16 full-page plates, 11 half-page plates all executed by Jan Luyken.
summary
A handsome set, in an attractive contemporary vellum binding of the first edition of this grand publication by Dutch scholar Willem Goeree (1635-1711). An important study on Jewish (and surrounding) antiquities. Scenes of the charming copper engravings fold-outs include scenes of the Patriarch Jacob, the Ten Plagues, the Perigrination of the Jews in the Wilderness, the Tabernacle, and the Desert Encampment.
Light wear, few tears. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly buckled, discolored, upper portion of spine of vol. III defective. Folio.
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