Be’er Haluchoth.

AUSPITZ, JACOB

Ofen, Royal Hungarian University Press, 1817

Three Hand-Colored Folding Maps Captioned in Hebrew. Letterpress folding chart. FIRST EDITION.

Vinograd, Ofen 2; Laor, Maps of the Holy Land nos. 879, 882 and 883.

The first Hebrew Atlas. The maps represent: The dispersion of the sons of Noah and spread of mankind across Asia, Africa and Europe; the encampment of the Hebrew tribes in the desert surrounding the Tabernacle; and a schematic map of the Land of Israel showing the Tribal division of the country between the Jordan and Mediterranean. This first edition proved immediately popular, so that a second edition appeared in Vienna only a year later. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37 and JE, Vol. II p. 317.