Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Sefer Hanukat Habayit – Venice, 1696 – Drawings of the Temple and its Vessels
Opening: $800
Unsold
Sefer Hanukat Habayit, explanation of the form and shape of the Temple that was destroyed. Rabbi Moshe Hefetz. Venice [1696].
Fine copy, with many drawings of the Temple and its vessels. The book was printed in two stages, when printing the text empty spaces were left for the drawings, and later the drawings were added using a different technique, by imprinting from etched copper plates. The current copy contains all the drawings except for the map at the end,
Stamp of “Aharon Elnakaveh from Algiers". On the sheet before the title page is recorded “I purchased it in 1941 … with G-d’s help I have to reprint it … in Modern Hebrew, Y.Z. Sasson, here Algiers”.
[4], 52 leaves, quality paper. 20 cm. Good condition, stains, moth damage.
Fine copy, with many drawings of the Temple and its vessels. The book was printed in two stages, when printing the text empty spaces were left for the drawings, and later the drawings were added using a different technique, by imprinting from etched copper plates. The current copy contains all the drawings except for the map at the end,
Stamp of “Aharon Elnakaveh from Algiers". On the sheet before the title page is recorded “I purchased it in 1941 … with G-d’s help I have to reprint it … in Modern Hebrew, Y.Z. Sasson, here Algiers”.
[4], 52 leaves, quality paper. 20 cm. Good condition, stains, moth damage.
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