Auction 71 - The Collection of Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber
"Hierosolyma, Clarissima Totius Orientis Civitas" – Two Maps of Jerusalem on the Same Sheet – Köln, 1572 – Hand-Colored Engraving
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,000
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Hierosolyma, Clarissima Totius Orientis Civitas. Hand-colored engraving from "Civitates Orbis Terrarium" by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. [Köln, 1572].
Two maps of Jerusalem on the same sheet, one of the ancient city and one of the modern city. Both maps were modeled after the maps of Peter Laicstein, a Dutch geographer and astronomer who visited Palestine in 1556. Three inset keys of the various sites appearing in the maps; inset illustration of Moses on Mount Sinai and Aaron in his priestly vestments.
Leaf: 40X52.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Pieces of paper glued to margins of leaf, on verso. Framed.
Literature: Image and Reality, by Rehav Rubin. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1999. pp. 135-136.
Laor 1039.
Two maps of Jerusalem on the same sheet, one of the ancient city and one of the modern city. Both maps were modeled after the maps of Peter Laicstein, a Dutch geographer and astronomer who visited Palestine in 1556. Three inset keys of the various sites appearing in the maps; inset illustration of Moses on Mount Sinai and Aaron in his priestly vestments.
Leaf: 40X52.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Pieces of paper glued to margins of leaf, on verso. Framed.
Literature: Image and Reality, by Rehav Rubin. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1999. pp. 135-136.
Laor 1039.
Jerusalem and the Temple – Maps and Prints
Jerusalem and the Temple – Maps and Prints