Description: Uit de Alder-Oudste Gedenkkenissen der Hebreen, Chaldeen, Babyloniers, Egiptenaars, Syriers, Grieken en Romeinen; [..]. Beneffens een Nasporing van de Verfoeijelijke Drek-Goden Der Chaldeen, Babyloniers, Syriers en Egiptenaren, [..]. Verrijkt met een betooglijk Ontwerp van de Pragtige Bouwgestalte des Tempels, Welke de Groote Koning Salomon, navolgens het Modèl van de Opperste Wijsheid, te Sion op den Berg Moria gebouwd, [..]. Door een Liefhebber der Joodsche Oudheden te saamen gebragt [..]. [Deel 1-2]. Tot Amsterdam, By Wilhelmus Goeree [..], 1690. 2 Vols.: [40],844,[36 index] and [2],845-1716,[36 index] pp. With 2 different engraved frontispieces by resp. G. van der Gouwen & J. van den Aveele after P. Tideman, 1 fold. engraved map (“den Aardbodem na de Zundvloed door Noachs dri Soonen en hare nakomelingen bevolkt [..]”, ca. 21 x 42 cm.), 86 (double-p.) engraved views/ plates (of which 27 folding) by i.a. Jan Luyken & num. engraved text-ills. Small folio, late 17th-cent. (almost unif.) blindst. panelled vellum with large blindst. ornament central on both covers, ribbed spine (sl. soiled). (2x) ? Fürst I, p. 339. Klaversma/ Hannema 571-572. Poortman II, p. 169. Complete set of the first edition of a comprehensive work (also known as “Joodse Oudheden”) by the Dutch bookseller & publisher Willem Goeree (1635-1711) concerning mainly with the history of the Jewish people in the Old & New Testament (incl. classical antiquity). The attractive engravings (partly by Jan Luyken) include i.a. 2 large-sized illustrations of the Tower of Babel (both ca. 28,5 x 64,5 cm.), 2 large-sized illustrations of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem (resp. ca. 30 x 66,5 cm. & ca. 29 x 138 cm.), num. numismatic illustrations (dep. ancient coins & medals) and an early specimen of a multi-layered plate with movable part (vol. 2, p. 963). ? Apart from a few minor imperfections (outer margin of pp. 843-844 in vol. 1 sl. torn, upper blank margin of several leaves in vol. 2 sl. waterstained, occ. sl. foxed/ browned) an attractive set in good condition.