Sepher ha-Shorashim ‘im Nigzarim (Dictionary of Hebrew roots and derivatives)

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Lot 187

Münster, Sebastian.

Sepher ha-Shorashim ‘im Nigzarim (Dictionary of Hebrew roots and derivatives)

SECOND EDITION. Text in Latin. Latin marginalia and underlining. ff. (496).(A previous owner has included Hebrew pagination, employing a most eccentric method of pagination using the Hebrew alphabet.) Reads from right to left. Portion of title removed. Calf, distressed. 8vo Prijs, 112.

Basle: Froben 1564

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

Münster translated Rabbi David KImchi’s Sepher ha-Shorashim from Hebrew to Latin, all the while embellishing upon the original work.