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LOT 17:
Tevuot HaAretz by Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz. German Edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1852
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Tevuot HaAretz by Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz. German Edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1852
Sefer Tevuot HaAretz by Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz, in German translation. Das Heilige Land, nach seiner ehemaligen und jetzigen geographischen Beschaffenheit. Frankfurt am Main, 1852.
The important work Tevuot HaAretz was printed for the first time in Jerusalem in 1845. It was then printed in English translation in 1850. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria presented Rabbi Yosef with a gold medal for this German edition, printed in 1852.
With the author's portrait (facing the title page), an illustration of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, Beit Lechem and the Cave of the Patriarchs, a panorama of Jerusalem (folded leaf) and a map of the Land of Israel (folded leaf). The Jerusalem panorama is listed in the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, National Library Jer128 and Mapot Yisrael 711 Laor Pal556.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Yehosef Schwartz.
20, 452, XIX pp, 21 cm. [3] picture plates. [2] folded maps.
Fine condition. Notations and signatures from the period of printing.
