Auction 15 · Lot 103

Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Biblia Hebraica. Edited and with an introduction in Latin by Johannes Leusden

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $700

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

author

(BIBLE,.

printer

Joseph Athias

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1667

Description

Additional engraved title, woodcut divisonal title pages. Housed in a Handsome Contemporary Binding

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 356; Fuks, Amsterdam 393; Darlow & Moule 5134

summary

Darlow & Moule notes: “D. E. Jablonski states, on the authority of Leusden himself that Athias, after printing four or five sheets of this volume, determined to raise the number of copies from 4,500 to 5,000, and so had to reprint the early sheets. These few reprinted sheets did not receive Leusden’s correction, and they differ slightly from the first impression.The second issue may be distinguished from the first by the omission of a maqueph between the first two words of v. 18 in Gen. viii.” Concerning the struggle with a competing edition, see Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands (1984) Vol. I p. 46

ff.(19),178;508,(2). Few light stains in places, generally a clean copy. Contemporary chestnut mottled calf, gilt-tooled floral border with central gilt-tooled hunter inlay, spine gilt in compartments, gilt extras, gently rubbed at extremities, a.e.g. gauffered edges. Lg. 8vo

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