Auction 90
Fine Judaica Including: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts
Jul 21, 2020
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USA
Brooklyn Navy Yard: Building 77 Suite 1108 Brooklyn NY, 11205
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LOT 47:
BRACHEL, PETER VON.
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Sold for: $1,000
Start price:
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1,000
Estimated price:
$1,200 - $1,800
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25%
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BRACHEL, PETER VON.
Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta, Iudeae, Totiusque Orientis Longe Clarissima.
Double-page hand-colored copperplate view of Jerusalem. Top verse from Book of Ezekiel: "This is Jerusalem! I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her."
14 x 17.5 inches (35.5 x 44.5 cm). Finely framed.
Cologne, 1575:
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.
Fine panoramic plan-view of the city of Jerusalem. With forty-eight important religious sites and events numbered and keyed to Latin text panel below. Two pages of text concerning the city by Georg Braun on verso. From the first atlas of world cities: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Vol. II, p. 54) with plates primarily by the Flemish engraver Frans Hogenberg.
