Goeree - Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke - 1700

Complete set of this extensive work (first and only edition) on Jewish history by Wilhelmus Goeree (1635-1711), lavishly illustrated with mainly engravings by Jan Luyken.

(Willem Goeree)
Mosaic History of the Hebrew Church, as it was in the tribal houses of the Holy Fathers of the Old Covenant, before and under the Promise…. And usually upholstered with many accurate print images, by a lover of Jewish Antiquities. Contained in four parts.
Amsterdam, Willem & David Goeree, (1700)

4 parts: title print (50)+728+(20) & title print (10)+804+(20) & title print (14)+755+(17) & title print (8)+693+(15) pp; outside text 74 engravings (26 folding & 19 double-page)
Contemporary calfskin bindings (34x22.5cm, jaded, especially spines defective & fragile); tears in some plates (on edge or in folds), part 4 some pages loose