Bidspirit auction | GOEREE, WILLEM & DAVID. Mosaize

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. With numerous maps including: 41 fold-out plates, 16 full-page plates, 11 half-page plates all executed by Jan Luyken 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). Light wear, few tears. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly buckled, discolored, upper portion of spine of vol. III defective. Folio. Sold not subject to return. 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. The charming copper engraved 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. 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. The charming copper engraved 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.