Tissard, Francois. Grammatica Hebraica

Estimate

$15,000–$18,000

Hammer price

$16,000

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

author

(PARIS)

printer

Gilles de Gourmont

Place

Paris

Publication

1508

Description

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with a most distinctive Hebrew type-face. Marginalia

references

Not in Adams

summary

THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN PARIS. See M. Rosenfeld, Hebrew Printing from its Beginning (1992) no. 538 (not seen). A very fine copy of a very scarce book. Francois Tissard was one of the first Christian Hebraists to publish a Hebrew grammar of his own making. Recently, Sophie Kessler-Mesguich submitted a doctoral dissertation to the Sorbonne in Paris entitled, Les etudes hebraiques en France, de Francois Tissard à Richard Simon (1508-1680) - Grammaires et enseignement. See also See JE, Vol. VI, p. 73; EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 59-60.

Complete in ff. 90 (compared with copy in JTSA). Trace stained, otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Modern elaborately blind-tooled calf with clasps and hinges, gauffred gilt edges. 8vo.

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