Chachmath Hamazaloth...Kalendarium Hebraicum

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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Lot 301

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN.

Chachmath Hamazaloth...Kalendarium Hebraicum

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Printer’s device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf. Numerous woodcut astronomical illustrations. Historiated woodcut initials pp.(8),200,(16). Few copies with 2 foldout plates (cf. Prijs, Basle 24). Light stains in places, manuscript German biography of Münster tipped onto front-free endpaper. Modern morocco. 4to Vinograd, Basle 23; Mehlman 1871; Prijs, Basle 24; Adams M-1933

Basle: Johann Froben 1527

Est: $5,000 - $6,000

Important collection of Jewish astronomical, chronological and calendrical treatises, together with philosophical poems. A crisp copy