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TEMPLO, JACOB JEHUDAH LEON. Retrato del tabernaculo de Moseh [Description of the Tabernacle, in Spanish]. Amsterdam: Gillis Joosten, 1654. 49 leaves. Engraved double-page plate of the Tabernacle and an engraved double-page plan of the Ten Tribes; woodcut title vignette of David playing the harp. 4to, 179 x 128 mm. (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.), contemporary limp vellum, remnants of early calf rebacking; browned and stained throughout (text and plates), early marginalia on title. A.K. Offenberg, "Bibliography of the works of Jacob Jehudah Leon (Templo)", in: Studia Rosenthaliana 12 (1978) pp. 111-32, no. 15, pp. 127-28; H. den Boer, "Spanish and Portuguese editions from the Northern Netherlands II,2", in: Studia Rosenthaliana 23,2 (1989) no. 246, p. 141; Kayserling 58; Palau 135639. This is one of a series of books published by Jacob Jehudah Leon Templo on the Tabernacle and the Temple, of which he possessed a model. This model was renowned and highly regarded in his own days already and was based on technical details given in various old Jewish sources. He lived in the Korte Houtstraat in Amsterdam, in a house displaying the sign of Solomon's Temple. For a short biographical sketch of Templo, see: A.K. Offenberg, "Jacob Judah Leon Templo's broadsheet of his model of the Temple", in: A.K. Offenberg, E.G.L. Schrijver, F.J. Hoogewoud, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Treasures of Jewish Booklore... (Amsterdam 1994) pp. 32-33.