PENTATEUCH & EARLY PROPHETS). Biblia Ebraica. Prepared by Elias Hutter

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew

printer

Elias Hutter

Place

Cologne

Publication

1603

Description

Fine ornamental title page printed in red and black

references

Vinograd, Hamburg 9; Berkowitz no.171; Darlow and Moule 5108

summary

“In this edition the root letters are printed in thick type and the inflectional letters in hollow type; and when a root letter in any word does not appear, it is printed in small type above the line.” Darlow & Moule 5108. An extraordinarily ambitious feat of scholarship

pp. (6), 772.Lightly browned and dampstained. Dark ink stain on upper outer margin of first few leaves, margins of title with slight loss supplied in manuscript. Later morocco-backed boards, rubbed. Folio

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