Lot 156
Study of the Temple – Illustrated Plates – London, 1886
Solomon’s temple and capitol, ark of the flood and tabernacle, or, The holy houses of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Septuagint, Coptic, and Itala scriptures, Josephus, Talmud, and rabbis, by Timothy Otis Paine. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. English.
Study by the author Timothy Paine, conducted during 33 years. Paine tried to reconstruct, on the basis of various manuscripts, the structure of the first Temple, the holy compound and the structure of Noah's ark.
X, 198 pp; 42 plates. Particularly heavy volume, 39 cm. Eleborate binding (new). Original paper-cover bound at the end of the volume. Edge-gilded leaves. Overall good condition, minor spotting.
