Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)

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Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. * WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)

Divisional titles pp. (7), 1572 (i.e. 1568). Title remargined, opening few leaves lightly worn, slightly browned. Modern morocco. Thick folio Vinograd, Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Berkowitz no.171

Hamburg: Elias Hutter- Johann Saxon 1587

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. “An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Rememberance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968) no.171