Bidspirit auction | GOEREE, WILLEM & DAVID.

GOEREE, WILLEM & DAVID. - Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes. Titles printed in red and black with engraved devices. Historiated initials. Additional copper engraved title pages and frontispieces, numerous full-page plates (i.e. maps), many folding, as well as numerous text illustrations, decorated initials and tailpieces.      * Vol. I: pp. (54), 728, (20). * Vol. II: pp. (12), 804, (20). * Vol. III: pp. (16), 755, (17). * Vol. IV: pp. (12), 693, (15). With 41 fold-out plates, 16 full-page plates, 11 half-page plates all executed by Jan Luyken. Light wear, few tears. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly buckled, discolored, upper portion of spine of vol. III defective. Folio. Amsterdam: 1700. 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. Scenes of the charming copper engravings 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.