Sepher Harakavah [grammar]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 139

HALEVI, ELIJAH BEN ASHER

Sepher Harakavah [grammar]

Second Edition. Opening word within a decorative woodcut border. ff. 83, (1). Lightly browned, stained in places, ff.42-3 starting. Modern boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 267; Habermann, Bomberg 190; Adams E-129

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1546

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $750

Provides an alphabetical list of compound words in the Bible, and explains their composition and derivation. “Elijah’s grammatical books, on account of their clearness and preciseness, gained great favor among the Christian Hebrew scholars of the sixteenth Century and several of them were immediately translated into Latin.” See M. Waxman, Vol. II p.19.