Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Biblia Hebraica. Edited and with an introduction in Latin by Johannes Leusden.

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00

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Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Biblia Hebraica. Edited and with an introduction in Latin by Johannes Leusden.

Additional engraved title, woodcut divisonal title pages. Housed in a Handsome Contemporary Binding. ff.(19),175;508,(2). Lightly browned, dampstained in places, crude paper repairs to f. 1. trace marginal foxing on a few leaves, scattered marginal annotations, Contemporary rich mahogany mottled calf gilt-tooled floral border, spine in compartments, later silver-gilt filigree clasps and hinges, a.e.g. gauffered edges. Lg. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 356; Fuks, Amsterdam 393; Darlow & Moule 5134

Amsterdam: Joseph Athias 1667

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Darlow & Moule notes: “D. E. Jablonski states, on the authority of Leusden himself that Athias, after printing four or five sheets of this volume, determined to raise the number of copies from 4,500 to 5,000, and so had to reprint the early sheets. These few reprinted sheets did not receive Leusden’s correction, and they differ slightly from the first impression.The second issue may be distinguished from the first by the omission of a maqueph between the first two words of v. 18 in Gen. viii.” Concerning the struggle with a competing edition, see Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands (1984) Vol. I p. 46.