Bidspirit auction | ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA. Tavnith

ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA. Tavnith HaBayith HaShlishi [on the Prophet Ezekiel’s vision of the future Temple]. With commentary by the Vilna Gaon to the Book of Yechezkel chaps. 40-47. Fine hand-colored folding plan of the Third Temple lacking in most copies. pp. 24. Contemporary marbled wrappers. 8vo. Vinograd, Berlin 538; Vinograd, Gr’a 47. Berlin: Chevrath Chinuch Ne’arim 1822 The rare folding plate displays a detailed plan of the Third Temple, with captions in German and Hebrew: ”Plan of the Future Temple… copied from the work of the luminary, the outstanding and prominent Torah scholar, teacher of the Diaspora, R. Eliyahu of Vilna.”