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Auction 7 · Lot 338

Steinschneider, Moritz. Die Hebraeischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher.

Estimate
$100–$150
Hammer price
$225

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIBLIOGRAPHY).

Place

Berlin

Publication

1893

Description

FIRST EDITION. One of 300 unnumbered copies

references

Shunami 1215

summary

No doubt Steinschneider’s magnum opus, delineating how Hebrew and Arabic thinkers were the medium by which classical Greek learning was transmitted to Western thought, and the continuing role of Semitic writers in the spread of ideas during the Middle Ages
34, 1077 pp. Original boards, covers extensively, but neatly reinforced with black tape. Thick 4to
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