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

(BIBLE,.

Joseph Athias

Amsterdam

1667

Additional engraved title, woodcut divisonal title pages. Fine, clean copy

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

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. It has been suggested by Sabbatian conspiratologists that the chronograms on the divisional titles of Nevi’im Acharonim (Later Prophets) and Kethuvim (Hagiographa), “Moshi’a” (Saviour) and “Nosha” (Saved), respectively, betray the printer Joseph Athias’ sympathies for pseudo-Messiah Shabbetai Zevi