Auction of Judaica. Including a large offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books.
Judaica books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) are offered next.
This includes two important letters from the United States regarding Edgardo Mortara (Lot 31); an exceptionally rare E.M. Lilien livre-de-artiste (Lot 150); an impressive 18th-century plate-book featuring the Holy Land (Lot 156); a recently discovered illustrated letter by Arthur Szyk (Lot 199).
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The final portion of the auction includes a wide selection of Jewish Graphic Arts, many formerly in the collection of the late Peter Ehrenthal; and Ceremonial Objects from a distinguished four-generation collection.
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LOT 145:
(JERUSALEM).
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Start price:
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1,500
Estimated price :
$2,000 - $2,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
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(JERUSALEM).
Temple de Jerusalem. Hand-colored engraving by ROMEYN DE HOOGHE.
Text below shows ten locations within the scene.
16 x 18.5 inches sheet size. (See Laor 1045).
Amsterdam, J. Lindenbergh, 1702.
This fine engraved view of Solomon's Temple and the surrounding city of Jerusalem is full of activity, with a mass of people, animals and carriages. Below the engraving is a key to the places that are numbered in the engraving.
From: Basnage & Alewyn's T’groot waerelds tafereel. Image originally conceived by the Jesuit scholar Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552-1608).
Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was a skilled and prolific late Dutch Baroque painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist.
