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Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.

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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