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AUSPITZ, JACOB - Be’er Haluchoth. Three Hand-Colored Folding Maps Captioned in Hebrew. Letterpress folding chart. FIRST EDITION. pp. 12 (erroneous pagination). Lacking two additional maps. Stained, small tear to letterpress chart. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn. 8vo. Ofen, Royal Hungarian University Press, 1817: The first Hebrew Atlas. The maps represent: The dispersion of the sons of Noah and spread of mankind across Asia, Africa and Europe; the encampment of the Hebrew tribes in the desert surrounding the Tabernacle; and a schematic map of the Land of Israel showing the Tribal division of the country between the Jordan and Mediterranean. This first edition proved immediately popular, so that a second edition appeared in Vienna only a year later. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 129-37 and JE, Vol. II p. 317.