Mai, Johann Heinrich (the younger). Bibliotheca Offenbachiana MSS.…Catalogus et Recensio Msstorum Codicum qui in Biblotheca Zachariae Conradi ab Offenbach (Catalogue of Mss. in Library of Zacharia Conrad of Offenbach)

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Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Mai, Johann Heinrich (the younger). Bibliotheca Offenbachiana MSS.…Catalogus et Recensio Msstorum Codicum qui in Biblotheca Zachariae Conradi ab Offenbach (Catalogue of Mss. in Library of Zacharia Conrad of Offenbach)

FIRST EDITION. Title in black and red; printer’s mark. Latin. Contains several full-page kabbalistic charts and diagrams Two parts. I: pp. (30), cols. 706, pp. (23). II: pp. (6),1364, pp. (52). f.18 of second index torn and repaired to size. Half calf; spine distressed. Thick folio Shunami, no. 3134; St. Cat. Bodl. no. 6201(1)

Halle: Novi Bibliopolii 1720

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $950

In Part I, cols. 1-416, “Codices Ebraico-Rabbinicos” (Hebrew-Rabbinic Codes), 141 entries. CONTAINS EXCERPTS FROM SEVERAL UNIQUE HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS. The Author, Johann Heinrich Mai (1688-1732) was professor of Greek and Oriental languages in the University of Giessen. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 264