Winner's Unlimited - No. 107
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes - Buyer's commission 22%
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Wood engraving depicting Jerusalem between the walls, Solomon's Temple and the surrounding buildings. Round city, as it was customary in described Middle Ages. By Hartmann Schedel. In the title: Hierosolima [Jerusalem]. Nuremberg, 1493. Incunabula. From Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten [Nuremberg Chronicle], p. xvii. Latin inscriptions.
Latin inscription in the center: Templum Salomois. The engraving was done by Michael Wolgemat (1434-1519).
Among the first maps of Jerusalem presently known. See Leor, 1123. Rubin, Jerusalem in Maps and Views, page 60.
Size: 19x22 cm. Placed in passe-partout: 33x36 cm. Very fine condition.
Die heilige statt Jerusalem contrafehtet nach form uns geststalt wie sie ietz erbauwen ist. View of Jerusalem, two-page engraving from Sebastian Münster's book Cosmographica, Basel, 16th century.
Cosmographica deals with geography, history, zoology, botany, anthropology and astronomy, accompanied by hundreds of maps and illustrations of countries and cities around the world. The first German edition was published in 1544, and is considered one of the earliest depictions of the world. There were many more editions published in German, Latin, French, Italian and Czech. Before us is a depiction from one of the German editions of the book.
Engraving 16x38 cm., sheet: 35x43 cm. Fold line in the center. Some stains in the margins. Fine condition.
Hierosolyma, Urbs Sancta. Ludeae, Totiusque Orientis Longe Clarissima, Qua Amplitudine Ac Magnificentia Hoc Nostro Aevo Conspicua Est.
Map of Jerusalem - engraving from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenburg's book, Civitates Orbis Terrarum Kalen, 1575. Cologne, 1575.
View of Jerusalem from the east. Latin inscription in the upper margins: "This is Jerusalem, among the nations I have placed her, and all around her are countries." (Yechezkel, 5:5).
Leor: 1040
33x43 cm. Placed in passe-partout 50x63 cm. Fine condition.
CARTE DE LA TERRE SAINTE - Map of the Land of Israel from the Atlas Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam around 1700.
Size: 35x29 cm, framed in wood and glass 52x45 cm.
Tears to margins and middle,moderate condition.
Ancient map of the tribe of Ephraim's inheritance on the east side of the Jordan - engraving by Thomas Fuller, from the British cartographer's famous work, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine 1650.
Thomas Fuller [1606-1661] Historian, English churchman and prolific writer. His book, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the confines thereof; with the history of the Old and New Testaments acted thereon was published in London in 1650, and included maps and drawings of the Land and its boundaries. The map before us displays the boundaries of the inheritance of the tribe of Reuven as a part of a series of maps of the tribes' inheritances which are brought in the book. A signed certificate of authenticity is attached.
[1] map, paper. 34x29 cm. Placed in passe-partout and a wood and glass frame: 52x48 cm.
Very fine condition, fold marks.
Veertich - Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels map of the Land of Israel according to the division of the tribal lands from east to west - engraving hand-painted at the time of printing, made by engraver Nicolaus Visscher Amsterdam 1660.
The map depicts the Land of Israel according to the division of the tribal lands. Images of Moshe and Aharon beside a diagram of the Holy Temple are at the bottom of the map. At right there is a pair of angels holding a picture of the Holy Ark and the cherubs, at left there is a pair of angels holding a picture of the Holy Temple's menorah and the alters.
Size: 49x33 cm. The map is attached to a hard board for display and protection.
Very fine condition.
Terra Sancta Sive Promissionis Olim Palestina - engraving depicting the Land of Israel according to tribal divisions, hand-painted at the time of printing by I. Covens and C. Mortier, Amsterdam 17th - 18th century.
The map depicts the Land of Israel from east to west. Images of Moshe and Aharon are on the bottom, next to the gold alter and the copper alter. A diagram of the Holy Temple is between them. Images of putti holding a chain of leaves and flowers on the top. Latin writings.
Size: 55x45 cm. Placed in a magnificent passe-partout: 71x62 cm.
Very fine condition.
Veertich Larige Reyse ... Terra Sancta
Hand-painted map depicting the Land of Israel and the exodus from Egypt, its lower part has large pictures integrating scenes from the story of the exodus from Egypt and a large illustration of Moshe on Har Sinai. A similar map appears in La Sainte Bible qui contient le Vieux et le Nouveau Testament [Amsterdam 1660]. Nice cartouche in the image of four angels on the upper right.
50x42 cm. Attached to a stiff board for preservation, three tears along the length and width pasted on the reverse.
Chorographia Tarrae Sancte in Angustiorem Formam Radacta, Et Ex Variis Auctoribus A Multis Erroribus Expurgata. Map of the Land of Israel - impressive engraving hand-painted (apparently, according to Christian van Adricom). [Venice, 1786].
Large map of the Land of Israel, divided into tribal inheritances, on both sides of the Jordan. An oval map of Jerusalem is integrated in the center of the lower part. Eighteen rectangles in the margins of the map with illustrations of the interior of the Holy Temple and a view of its facade, the Temple vessels, old coins and more.
From the book In Universam Sacram Scripturam by Jacobus Tirinus.
Engraving: 33x38 cm. Placed in a passe-partout frame 45x96 cm. Very fine condition.
1. Iudaea, seu Terra Sancta quae Hebraeorum sive Israelitarum. Map of the Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan, with division into the tribes' inheritances by Guillaume Sanson, Amsterdam, [1700?]. Hand-painted engraving.
Cartouche with map title and printing details in the upper left corner, next to pictures of Aharon the priest, Avraham and Yitzchak, and more. Illustration of the spies with a grape cluster in the lower left corner.
58x47 cm. Stains and tears. Tears with lack and damage to the map (some of which are restored with pasted paper). Pieces of tape are stuck to the back of the poster. Moderate-fine condition.
2. La Judée ou Palestine, sous le roi Herodes. Map of the Land of Israel during Herod's rule, with division into tribal inheritances by Pierre Moullart-Sanson [Paris, 18th century]. Hand-colored engraving, nice cartouche of Herod and builders of the Temple on the upper right.
Engraving 33.3x39 cm. Some stains. Creases, tears and minor defects in the margins. A numbers of pieces of paper pasted to the back of the map. Fine condition.
Karte von Palastina von C.W.M. Van De Velde. Gotha, 1866. Eight color geographic maps depicting various areas of the Land of Israel by cartographer Charles Wilhem.
Following a change in Ottoman Empire policy, there was relative stabilization of the security, political, and economic situations in the Land of Israel, and a wave of European tourism began to visit the Land. This led to growing European involvement in what was happening in the Land of Israel. The maps before us are the product of Europe's renewed interest in the Holy Land. After eight months of geographic and cartographic research, maps by the Dutch cartographer Charles William Meredith Van De Veled began to appear starting in 1858, aided by his military past, knowledge of biblical geography and drawing talent. His journey to the Holy Land [including areas which are now parts of Lebanon and Syria] are reviewed in his travelogue. Before us is the German edition of the maps, published in 1866.
For more on the map and the cartographer, refer to: Mapping the Holy Land: The Origins of Cartography in Palestine (2017), chapter 2 – The Land and the Map: C.W.M. van de Velde's Map of the Holy Land, by Jutta Faehndrich.
[9] leaves, 47x39 cm, including [8] color maps of the Land of Israel. German.
Slight aging stains. Fine condition.
Esquisses Africaines. Dessinées pendant un voyage a Alger et Lithographies par Adolphe Otth. 1839.
Album with 30 plates of large lithographs depicting Algeria and its surroundings - scenic views, religious sites, historic buildings and more. The views were painted during a journey to Algeria and its surroundings, and were published bound with notes from the trip. The album opens with a portrait of Otth. French.
Adolphe Otth conducted his trip to the Balearic Islands and Algeria in 1836 as a naturalist mainly interested in insects, reptiles and amphibians living around the Mediterranean. He returned at the end of his journey with many sketches, the finest of which he converted to lithographs and published in the collection of lithographs in the album before us.
[39] pages, 36x49 cm., album: [30] plates with color lithographs, with an introductory preface with a detailed description of each one of the lithographs.
Original binding with stamping. Stained and rubbed binding. Aging stains in the wide margins of the lithographs, two lithographs have large stains, the rest are in fine condition.