Sepher ha-Bachur / Liber Electus. Introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian MUEnster

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

Sepher ha-Bachur / Liber Electus. Introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian MUEnster

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew with Latin on facing pages. Printer’s mark on verso of final leaf (Yaari, no. 12). Replete with Latin marginalia ff.(152). Few light stains in places, a few leaves shorter, and in two instances the text itself has been slightly cropped. Modern beige crushed morocco, title blind-tooled on upper cover. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Basle 16 (JNUL copy incomplete); Prijs, Basle 18; Adams E-114

Basle: Johann Froben 1525

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

The Sepher ha-Bachur is subdivided into four treatises, each containing thirteen principles or “ikarim,” (perhaps a mnemonic similar to Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles). - A typically thorough linguistic investigation by an exceptional Hebrew philologist