Discours du Tabernacle, et du Camp des Israelites. Recueilly de plusieurs anciens Docteurs Hebrieux [“Discourse concerning the Tabernacle and the Camp of the Israelites. Collected from Several Ancient Hebrew Doctors.”]

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Lot 214

AQUIN, PHILIP D’.

Discours du Tabernacle, et du Camp des Israelites. Recueilly de plusieurs anciens Docteurs Hebrieux [“Discourse concerning the Tabernacle and the Camp of the Israelites. Collected from Several Ancient Hebrew Doctors.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Text in French. Hebrew appendices (pp. 93-104). <<Four woodcut illustrations of the Temple. >> pp. (8), 104, (1). Light stains. Ex-library. Contemporary limp vellum. 4to.48.

Paris: Thomas Blaise 1623

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Born in Carpentras in about the year 1578 the author converted from Judaism to Catholicism, assuming the name “Philippe d’Aquin” (after Aquino, the place of his conversion). He was soon appointed professor of Hebrew Language by King Louis XIII and resided in Paris until his death in 1650. See JE, Vol. II, p. 38.