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

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 103

(BIBLE,.

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),178;508,(2). Few light stains in places, generally a clean copy. Contemporary chestnut mottled calf, gilt-tooled floral border with central gilt-tooled hunter inlay, spine gilt in compartments, gilt extras, gently rubbed at extremities, a.e.g. gauffered edges. Lg. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 356; Fuks, Amsterdam 393; Darlow & Moule 5134

Amsterdam: Joseph Athias 1667

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $700

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