Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

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The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 57

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Hebrew and Latin text pp. (12), 401, (13). Browned and lightly stained, title remargined, neat marginal repair to final leaf. Contemporary boards, Valmadona-custom gilt-tiled morocco spine-label, rubbed. Sm. 4to. Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414.

Zürich: Joh. Jacob Bodmer 1655

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, Hottinger (1620-67) was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis (see EJ Vol. VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in Aaron Halevi’s Sepher HaChinuch.