Schnurrer, Christian Friedrich. Dissertationes Philologico-Criticae.

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $650

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author

(BIBLE).

printer

Ettinger/Roeder & Soc.

Place

Gotha/Amsterdam

Publication

1790

Description

FIRST EDITION.Latin interspersed wih Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac. From the Cassuto Collection.

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt on der Oder 48.

summary

Christian Friedrich Schnurrer (1742-1822) was an acclaimed Hebraist and Arabist who served as a Professor at Tubingen University, and later as Chancellor of that institution. His enduring fame is his bibliography of Arabic literature: Bibliotheca Arabica (Halle, 1811). The present work is a collection of essays consisting of linguistic analyses of various Biblical passages.

pp. ( 52), 504. Some foxing. Contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to.

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