Solomon's Temple and Capitol, Ark of the Flood and Tabernacle or The Holy Houses of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Septuagint, Coptic, and Itala Scriptures; Josephus, Talmud, and Rabbis
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Small Elephant Folio. X, (4)198pp. Contemporary 3/4 morocco retaining original pebbled cloth boards, with gold lettering on black label, gilt ruling and blind-stamped tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Vignette on title page. Remarkable study on Israel's holiest shrines, profusely illustrated with 42 full-page plates and 120 text-cuts, being photographic reproductions of the original drawings made by the author. Each full-page engraving is protected with a captioned page with blank verso. Includes index to plates and figures and Key to Abbreviations. Binding rubbed at pebbled cloth. Some age-toning and offsetting of title page, minor chips at foredge. Minor rubbing along top and foredge in margins of block. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Item #37238
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