(The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum.

AUCTION 87 | Thursday, January 16th, 2020 at 1:00pm
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Lot 76
BUXTORF, JOHANNES.

(The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum.

Additional, elaborately engraved title-page, and engraved frontispiece portrait of Buxtorf. ff. (8), 2680 columns, ff. (32). Foxed with light wear. Contemporary vellum, spine distressed, upper cover starting. Thick folio. Prijs, Basle 237.

Basle: Ludwig Koenig 1639-40

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $170
Johannes Buxtorf’s colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum was completed by his son, Johannes the Younger. It served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their studies in Talmud and rabbinics. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543.