Auction 94 · Lot 34
Be’er Haluchoth.
- Estimate
- $7,000–$10,000
- Hammer price
- $14,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
AUSPITZ, JACOB.
printer
Georg Holzinger
Place
Vienna
Publication
1818
Description
Five Hand-Colored Folding Maps in Hebrew. Second edition.
references
Vinograd, Vienna 481; Laor 879A, 881, 882A, 883A and 884.
summary
The first Hebrew Atlas. This second edition followed the first, produced in.
Budapest (Ofen), just a year earlier. Both editions are exceptionally rare.
“The maps represent: (1) the spread of mankind after the Deluge; (2) the migration of the Hebrew tribes in the desert; (3) their camps; (4) the Mediterranean and the projected division of Palestine; (5) Palestine according to Jewish and Gentile sources.”
Cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37. And see JE, Vol. II p. 317.
ff. 8. Touch stained, maps lightly worn at folds, strengthened on verso. Modern boards. 8vo.
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