Auction 80
Fine Judaica: * A Singular Collection of Important Hebrew Manuscripts. * Printed Books: Exceptional Offering from Two Notable Collections. * The Yosef Goldman Collection of American-Judaica.
Mar 28, 2019
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USA
242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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LOT 177:
BRAUN, GEORG, HOGENBERG, FRANS.
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Estimated price:
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600 - $900
Auction house commission:
25%
VAT: 8.875% On commission only
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Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis ciuitas, Iudaee Metropolis.
Hand-colored copperplate double-page twin plans of Jerusalem.
17 x 22 inches (43 x 56 cm).
Frankfurt, 1572 (or later):
Two Jerusalems are depicted; on the left, the city during the Second Temple Era; on the right, the contemporary city. Lower left, Moses receives the Decalogue at Mount Sinai, surrounded by a prostrating nation. This first appeared in Braun and Hogenberg’s ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum.’
