Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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. With numerous maps including: 41 fold-out plates, 16 full-page plates, 11 half-page plates all executed by Jan Luyken as well as numerous text illustrations, decorated initials and tailpieces.

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. The charming copper engraved 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.

* Vol. I: pp. (54), 728, (20). * Vol. II: pp. (12), 804, (20). * Vol. III: pp. (16), 755, (17). * Vol. IV: pp. (12), 693, (15). Light wear, few tears. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly buckled, discolored, upper portion of spine of vol. III defective. Folio. Sold not subject to return.

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