[Illustrium Virorum Epistolae Hebraicae, Graecae et Latinae]

AUCTION 1 |
Thursday, November 14th,
1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 253
(REUCHLIN, JOHANNES).
[Illustrium Virorum Epistolae Hebraicae, Graecae et Latinae]
Hagenau: Th. Anshelm 1514
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $750
Celebrated defense of Reuchlin by various eminent German scholars written amidst his lengthy dispute with Johannes Pfefferkorn. The first edition of this work (also printed by Anshelm, though in only ff.52) appeared a few months before this second, Tübingen edition. See S.A. Hirsch, Johann Pfefferkorn and the Battle of the Books, in: A Book of Essays (1905) pp.108-09