Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 84

HOTTINGER, JOHANNHEINRICH.

Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text pp.(12),401,(13). Later boards, rubbed, Sm.4to Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414

Zürich: 1655

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Hottinger (1620-67), a Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegisis. (See EJ VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in the Sepher Hachinuch