Collection comprising some 45 prints (engravings, woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs) depicting the Tabernacle and the Temples in Jerusalem, extracted from various scholarly and travel works. Some prints hand-colored. [Europe, ca. 15th-19th centuries].

Including:

• Templum Salomonis / Hierosolima, two incunabula leaves from the "Nuremberg Chronicle" by Hartmann Schedel. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. German edition. Woodcuts by Michael Wohlgemut. Second leaf (Hierosolima) trimmed without the text.

• The Temple as it was in Christe time. Hand-colored engraving by John Goddard, from Thomas Fuller's A Pisgah-sight of Palestine. [London: John Williams press, 1650].

• Judas Machabeus hersteld den Tempel met den Brand-Altaar, die Antiochus Epiphanes ontheiligd hadde. Engraving by Willem Swidde, depicting the rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabeus. [France or Holland, late 17th century].

• Beschryving van den Tempel te Jerusalem volgens Vilalpandus, [Holland, late 17th or early 18th century].

• Salomonis Templum. Engraving by Olfert Dapper. [Amsterdam or Nuremberg, late 17th or early 18th century].

• Doorsicht van den Tempel tot Ierusalem, Niewlicks uyt Josephus afgebeeld door I. H. Coccejus, [Amsterdam, 1704]. Reconstruction of the Temple according to Flavius Josephus.

• Vuë de Jerusalem avant sa Destruction. Hand-colored etching. [Paris, Mondhare, ca. mid-18th century]. Zograscope print; the title printed in reverse to be read via the optical device.

• La grande Hosanna ou Cérémonie du 8me jour de la Feste des Tabernacles, Les Levites portant des Palmes Chantans des psaumes et des Cantiques. Hand-colored engraving. [Paris, Mondhare, mid-18th century]. Zograscope print.

• Vue de la partie intérieure de la cour des Prestres dans le Temple de Salomon avec la manière de préparer et d'offrir les Sacrifices selon la Vision du Prophète Ezechiel. Hand-colored engraving. [Ca. 1760]. Zograscope print.

• Temple de Jerusalem. View of the Temple in Jerusalem by Romyn de Hooghe. Hand-colored. [Amsterdam: I. Lindenbergh, 18th century]. Zograscope print.

• Pompejus neemt den tempel te Ierusalem stormenderhand in. Engraving of Pompey and his soldiers storming the Temple. [Amsterdam: J. Covens & C. Mortier, mid-18th century].

• Salomon, ayant fait bâtir le temple de Jérusalem, en fait la dédicace au Seigneur. Engraving from Augustin Calmet’s Bible dictionary. [Ca. mid-18th century].

• And more.

Size and condition vary. Overall good to fair condition. Duplicates. The prints have not been thoroughly examined and are sold as-is.