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Auction 28 · Lot 67

Hebrew and Greek). Esrim ve-Arba’ah. * Bound with: New Testament (Greek) (London: H. Baldwin and Son, 1801). pp. 368 + ff. (2) (Explanations of Maps). [Darlow and Moule 4776]

Estimate
$1,500–$2,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE,.

printer

Menasseh ben Israel for Johannes Jansson

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1637-1639

Description

Three parts in one. Printed in double columns with nikud (vowel points). Title within architectural columns; Hebrew and Latin. Initial words within typographic borders. Nine foldout maps (six for Menasseh’s Esrim ve-Arba’ah; three for N.T.). Bookplate of Elijah Hebard (Protestant minister in New Haven, Conn., 1818-19)

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 45; Fuks, Amsterdam 167; Silva Rosa 28; Darlow & Moule 4684 and 5127

summary

The Third Menasseh ben Israel Bible - Provided with Maps This edition of Menasseh’s Bible was intended to be bound with J. Jansson’ s Greek New Testament. However instead of the contemporary Janssonius New Testament present, a later London edition of the New Testament has been substituted. Furthermore, the London editors took upon themselves to outfit both Menasseh’s original Esrim ve-Arba’ah and their own later N.T. with a total of nine maps, which they then interleaved throughout the combined text. In the bibliographic literature we find no mention of such an arrangement, neither of Menasseh’s Esrim ve-Arba’ah being bound with the London 1801 N.T., nor of the maps provided
Light stains. Attractive calf, detached. With leather slipcase. 8vo
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