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20 Items JERUSALEM TEMPLE &
TEMPLE MOUNT PLANS & MAPS
Include Book & Booklet
Holy Land Eretz Israel
20 Original RARE
15th to 20th Centuries Items of the
Temple and the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem.
Include two incunabula from
1493 and 1497 through the 16th century - hand-painted
Temple pattern, and plans from the following centuries
according to the Talmud, Josephus Flavius, Maimonides
and modern scholars such as Wilson and Pesach Neiman,
until Map with measurements made by surveyors of the
Zahal - IDF immediately after the Six Day War and more ...
1) Dated 1493 Incunabula !
Origin: "Liber Chronicarum"(The Book of Chronicles)
first edition published in Nurenberg,
edited in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in 1493.
Description: Highly decorative wood block
engraved plate including, recto/verso, six
profiles of the Zerubbabel Second Temple
at Jerusalem.
Mapmaker: Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
German physician, humanist, historian and
one of the first cartographers to use the
printing press.
Woodblock cutter: Michael Wolgemut, the
well-known teacher of Albrecht Durer.
Dimension: Large Paper approx: 31.8 X 45.4 cm.
Condition: Very strong and dark impression
on very strong paper. Wide margins. Paper slight
browned/stained by time - most at the edges,
otherwise Very Fine.
2) Dated 1497 Incunabula !
Origin: "Liber Chronicarum"
The Edition published in Augusburg.
Edited in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in 1497.
Description: Highly decorative wood block
engraved plate including three profiles of the
Zerubbabel Second Temple at Jerusalem
and text on back.
Mapmaker: Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
German physician, humanist, historian and
one of the first cartographers to use the
printing press.
Woodblock cutter: Michael Wolgemut, the
well-known teacher of Albrecht Durer. It is
highly likely that their apprentice, Albrecht Durer
(1471-1528) collaborated on some of the illustrations.
Dimension: Paper size approx: 19.5 X 28.7 cm.
Condition: Very strong and dark impression
on very strong paper. Wide margins. Paper slight
browned/stained by time - most at the edges,
otherwise very fine.
3) Dated 1563 PostIncunabula !
Origin: Virgil Solis
Virgil Solis or Virgilius
Solis (1514 – 1562), a member of a prolific
family of artists,
was a German draughtsman and Printmaker,
who
worked in his native city of Nurenberg.
His
prints were sold separately or from the
illustrations
in books (normally the woodcuts).
A. Reissner, Frankfurt, 1563.
"Jerusalem, vetustissima illa et celeberrima
totius mundi civitas ... Ffm., Feyerabend
u.a 1563".
Description:
Highly decorative hand colored wood block
engraved plate profiles of the Temple
at Jerusalem and text on the back.
Dimension: Paper size approx: 18 X 30.8 cm.
Condition: Very strong and dark impression
on strong paper. Cut margin. Paper slight
browned/stained by time - most at the edges.
4) Dated 1717
Origin:
Holy Land by Halma, Franciis
Canaan and the surrounding countries,
shows in a dictionary from the Holy
Scriptures and Josephus, of all the cities,
villages of the Jewish country, and the
regions of the neighboring nations.
with accurate maps and print images.
Leeuwarden, Francois Halma, 1717
Description: Highly decorative engraving
plane of the Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem,
with a scale. No text on back.
Mapmaker: According to Thomas Fuller
Dimension: Paper size approx: 40 X 32 cm.
Condition: Very strong and dark impression
on very strong paper. Tear and wrinkles (14 cm.)
in the down left margins. Paper very slight
browned/stained by time - most at the edges.
Paper Folded.
5) Dated 1725
Origin: Schryver
Gates of Temple Jerusalem 1725 Schryver
Original Plate.
"Schets van den Herbound Tempel doors
Herodes den Grooten".
Sketch of Herod the Great's Temple doors.
Description: Highly decorative engraving
plane of the Herod's Temple at Jerusalem,
with a scale. No text on back.
Fine and decorative superb copper engraved
plan of the Temple in Jerusalem. This Second
Temple was renovated by Herod the Great in
about 20 BC, also known as Herod's Temple.
Mapmaker: According to Schryver
Dimension: Image size approx.: 40.8 X 30.2 cm.
Paper size approx: 47.2 X 39.5 cm.
Condition: Strong impression on very strong
paper. Very Fine !
6) Dated 1725
Origin: Schryver
Room division Temple Jerusalem
1725 Schryver Original Plate.
"Schets van den Herbound Tempel
Herodes den Grooten".
Sketch of Herod the Great's Temple
Room division. According the Talmud,
Josefus and others.
Description: Highly decorative engraving
plane of the Herod's Temple at Jerusalem.
No text on back.
Fine and decorative superb copper engraved
plan of the Temple in Jerusalem. This Second
Temple was renovated by Herod the Great in
about 20 BC, also known as Herod's Temple.
Mapmaker: According to Schryver
Dimension: Image size approx.: 30 X 31 cm.
Paper size approx: 47.2 X 39.5 cm.
Condition: Strong impression on very strong
paper. Very Fine !
7) Undated circa 1730
Origin: Antwerpen.
Jerusalem Temple's Rooms division according
to Josephus Flavius (born Yosef ben Matityahu).
Sketch of Herod the Great's Temple
Room division.
Description: Highly decorative engraving
plane of the Herod's Temple at Jerusalem,
No text on back.
Fine and decorative superb copper engraved
plan of the Temple in Jerusalem. This Second
Temple was renovated by Herod the Great in
about 20 BC, also known as Herod's Temple.
Dimension: Paper size approx: 33 X 32 cm.
Condition: Paper folded. Slight browned/stained
by time. Strong impression on strong paper.
The left margin cut out in the down and up sides.
8) Dated 1737
Origin: "Travels into Muscovy, Persia and
part of the East Indies" by Cornelis de Bruyn,
London, 1737.
"Sketch of the temple of Jerusalem
built by king Solomon"
Description: Fine decorative copper engraving
plane of the Solomon Temple at Jerusalem,
with scale and interpretation. No text on back.
Dimension: Paper size approx: 46 X 43 cm.
Condition: Paper folds as issued. Strong
impression on strong paper. Very Fine.
9) Undated circa 1750
Origin: Algemeene History by
Besseling 1748-1760.
"Sketch of the Temple of Jerusalem
Built by king Solomon"
Description: Fine decorative copper engraving
plane of the Solomon Temple at Jerusalem,
with scale and interpretation. No text on back.
Dimension: Paper size approx: 40 X 35 cm.
Condition: Paper folds as issued. Strong
impression on strong paper. The right margin
cut out in the down & middle. 6 mini
perforation holes. Otherwise Very Fine.
10) Undated circa 1750
In Hebrew ! 3 Pages
Origin: "Tractate Middot"
Book
(Hebrew: מִדּוֹת, lit. "Measurements")
is the tenth Tractate of Seder
Kodashim
("Order of Holies") of the
Mishnah
and of the Talmud.
This Tractate describes the
dimensions
and the arrangement of the Temple
Mount.
in Jerusalem, and the Second
Temple
buildings and courtyards,
various gates,
the altar of sacrifice and
its surroundings,
and the places where the Priests
and Levites
kept watch in the Temple.
Maimonides,
in his introduction to this tractate,
notes that the purpose of this
tractate was to
elucidate details for the rebuilding
of the temple,
even though according to Jewish
tradition,
the design of the Third
Temple would be based
on the vision of the prophet Ezekiel
(Ezek. 40-43)
and differ in some regards from that
of the Second Temple.
Description: Fine decorative 3 large pages
with copper engraving planes of the Second
Temple Parts at Jerusalem, with
Hebrew interpretation and titles.
Dimension: Paper size: 24 X 39 cm.
Condition: Some tears. Paper slight browned/
stained by time, slight wrinkled. Some folds
and some warm holes, with scotch tape.
11) Undated circa 1800
Origin: Unknown.
"The Ground Plot of the Temple"
Description: Fine decorative copper engraving
plane of the Solomon Temple at Jerusalem,
No text on back.
Dimension: Paper size approx.: 25 X 22 cm.
Condition: Paper slight browned/stained by time.
Few small tears at the edges. Otherwise Fine.
12) Dated 1815
Origin: Unknown.
Dated on the back by pencil 1815.
"Ground Plan of Solomon Temple"
Description: Fine decorative copper engraved
plane of the Solomon Temple at Jerusalem,
Strong impression on strong paper,
with yellow hand colored.
with scale and interpretation. No text on back.
Dimension: Paper size approx.: 20 X 21.5 cm.
Condition: Very Fine
13) Dated 1876
Captain Wilson Large Map
"Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem"
Haram Grounds &c.
Large Map: 70 X 100 cm.
Description: Highly decorative Large
engraving map of the Wilson 1864-5 Survey
at The Temple Mount in Jerusalem. With
Titles, Scale and Interpretation in English.
Engraved in 1865 under the direction of
colonel Cameron at the Ordnance Survey
Office, Southampton. Revised in 1876.
Dimension: 70 X 100 cm.
Condition: Very Good.
14) Dated 1910
Origin: "The Surveyor".
Folded Large Map:
"To glorify and exalt the house of God" -
"A diagram of the Temple by Rabbi
Yitzchak Pesach Neiman of Dvinsk".
In Hebrew.
Description: A Map detailing in Hebrew the
Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Highly decorative,
with Hebrew Titles, Scale and Interpretation.
A painting for measuring the mountain and the
house, founded according to the elements of the
Talmud, in the first and last annotations,
everything is explained in the pamphlet
"The Surveyor" - not attached.
The Map Printed in Jerusalem.
Dimension: approx. 55 X 65 cm.
Condition: Wear & tear in the original folds
with old adhesive tape marks that replaced by
new archival adhesive tape. Slight browned by
time. Some tiny tears at the edge.
15) Dated 1920
Origin: "Eretz Israel Travel Book"
by Yeshayahu Peres, in Hebrew.
Description: A Map detailing in Hebrew the
Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Highly decorative,
with Hebrew Titles, Scale and Interpretation.
Page from the book. No text on back.
Dimension: 16.5 X 22 cm.
Condition: The page fold. Slight browned/
stained by time. Tear ~ 0.5 cm. at the edge.
Otherwise fine.
16) Dated 1935
"Al - Haram Al - Sharif"
Pamphlet in English on the Temple Mountain.
"Published by the Supreme Moslem Council"
"Price: 200 Mils"
Description: Soft original cover, 22 pages,
text and 7 Photographs by American Colony.
Sizes of the photographs: 18 X 13 cm.
Sizes of the pamphlet: 24 X 17 cm.
Printed in the Moslem Orphanage Press,
Jerusalem.
Condition: The cover with wear & tear,
the pages slight stained.
17) Dated 1944
"Al - Haram Al - Sharif" Large Map
"Survey of Palestine June 1944"
"Price: 500 Mils"
Large Map: 69.2 X 99.2 cm.
Description: Highly decorative Large Litho
or engraving map: the top border decoration
is part of an ornamental inscription from the
South Wall of the Aqsa Mosque. The remainder
is from the 16th. century tiles in the Dome
of the Rock. some of the descriptions from the
Wilson 1864-5 Survey at The Temple Mount.
With titles, scale and interpretation in English.
Also upper title in Arabic.
Printed on fine paper, with a strip of cloth
attached at the edges.
Scale: 1:625
Condition: Very Fine.
18) Dated 1967
"The Temple Mount" Map
by ZAHAL - IDF, General Staff /
Chief Education Officer - (Temporary & internal).
Translation and processing: Major B. Sapir,
Graphic update: Uziam Sapir
Description: A Map detailing in Hebrew the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Highly decorative,
with Hebrew Titles, Scale and Interpretation.
Printed on thick paper by IDF -
Education Branch.
Dimension: ~ 32.8 X 48 cm.
Dated: 14.6.1967
Condition: Slight browned/stained by time,
slight wrinkled. Otherwise Fine.
19) Dated 1967
"The Temple Mount Plan" Large Map.
First Measurements after the Six Day War.
Measured and Recorded by ZAHAL - IDF,
8 surveying soldiers and officers in 21.6.1967.
In Scale of 1:500
Description: A Map detailing in Hebrew the
Temple Mount and the Gates in Jerusalem,
with Hebrew Titles and Interpretation.
Printed on thick brown paper, with a
strip of cloth attached at the edges.
Dimension: approx. 68.5 X 117.5 cm.
Dated: 21.6.1967
Condition: Slight stained and slight wrinkled.
Otherwise Fine.
20) Dated 1967
"The Temple" Hebrew Book
by Rabbi Raphael Avraham Shalem (1888 - 1986),
was "Bezalel" of Boris Schatz Student.
Description: "12 drawings of the Temple Mount
and the Temple in its parts, according to a description
in the laws of the "House of Choice" by Maimonides
with lights and references in Hebrew".
30 large pages bound by original red hard cover.
Published by the Author. Printed on thick paper
by Itach the printer, Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem.
In the author's introduction: "... I also had the
privilege of locating various names and parts in
the map of the temple, whose place is not known
in the temple drawings that have been printed
so far, as the spring will show".
Dimension: 34.5 X 25.5 cm.
Dated: 1967 or תשכ"ז 1968
Condition: Some pages very slight browned/
stained by time. The cover slight stained and
detached from the pages. Otherwise Fine.
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and feel free to inquire if in doubt.
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