b'129 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). Samuel Bochart. Geographiae Sacrae Pars Prior Phaleg Seu De Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Diviosone Facta in aedicatione turris Babel. Cum Tabula Chorographica, & duplici Indice, 1. Locorum Scripture. 2. Rerum & Verborum. Two parts in one volume. Latin text with occasional use of Hebrew and Greek.FOLDING MAPS WITH HEBREW AND LATIN PLACE NAMES.pp.(28), 360, (50), 361-864, (92). Lightly browned, trace wormed, title laid down. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt extra, rubbed. Folio. [Rohricht 257; See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) p.55, no. 22.] Cadomi (Caen, Normandy, France), Petri Cardonelli, 1651. $2000 - $3000 Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), was a French Protestant Biblical scholar whose Geographia Sacra exerted a profound inuence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. The work seeks to explain the origins of civilization in antiquity based upon the Biblical stories of the Flood and Tower of Babel. Bochart attempted to match the 70 nations mentioned in the Biblical account with the respective ethnic groupings found of Europe, Africa and Asia.130 (ISRAEL, LAND OF). Gagin, Chaim Abraham. Sepher HaTakanoth VeHaskamoth.FIRST EDITION.Title within decorative architectural frame. Additional letterpress title after introduction. This copy with the scarce additional page of approbations at end. Marginal notations. ff. (16), 13-72, (4). Lightly stained in places, previous owners marks, minimal worming repaired. Later boards, gutter split. 12mo. [Vinograd, Jerusalem 14; Halevy 3.] Jerusalem, Israel Bak, 1842. $1500 - $2000 Compendium of rites and customs as practiced in the City of Jerusalem. R.Gagin (1787-1848) was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and the first to carry the official title of Haham Bashi. He was the son-in-law of the Kabbalist Shalom Sharabi. He was instrumental in the publication of manuscripts by other major Rabbinical scholars and kabbalists; for example, Kedushath Yom Tov by the Mahrit Algazi. See also the introduction by Gagin to his father in-laws work, Divrei Shalom where he defends his use of the title Haham Bashi. Shoshana Halevy saw only two copies of this work, of which only one had the nal leaf of approbations. The approbations contain valuable information concerning the founding of Baks printing press and the economic boon it would bring to Jerusalem.65'