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Mikra - Biblia Hebraica.

Auction 84 · Lot 25

Mikra - Biblia Hebraica.

Estimate
$200–$300
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(BIBLE)

printer

B. Reuther

Place

Kiel

Publication

1709

Description

Edited by Heinrich Opitz. Latin side-notes. Additional engraved title-page. 18th-century owners’ interlinear notes in Latin as well as study-record on end-papers.

references

Vinograd, Kiel 1; Darlow & Moule 5142.

summary

The only Hebrew Book printed in this city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The editor, the German Orientalist Heinrich Opitz (1642-1712), devoted 36 years to this work, utilizing numerous early manuscripts and printed editions.
ff. (17), 738, 2. Lightly stained and worn in places. Contemporary vellum, distressed. 4to.
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