103 211 KIRCHNER, PAUL CHRISTIAN. Jüdisches Ceremoniel. 28 engraved plates of ceremonies and customs. Allegorical engraved frontispiece. Ex-library, touch browned. Contemporary vellum. 4to. Nürnberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1726. $1000-1500 ❧ BOUND WITH: Gustav Georg Zeltner. De impedimentis et adjumentis conversionis judæorum. ff. 92. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1735. 212 LANDAU, JACOB. Sepher Agur [laws and precepts]. Second edition. Title within architectural arch. Initial letters of opening word within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. ff. 102. Previous owners’ stamps, few leaves remargined, expert paper repairs. Modern calf. 4to.[Vinograd, Rimini 6.] Rimini, Gershom Soncino, (1525-26). $5000-7000 ❧ The last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled. The Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains 1,439 sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. The author’s purpose was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as Jacob Moelin and Israel Isserlein, which were omitted by Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. This copy contains the rare final four leaves of riddles (Sepher Chazon) following the index. 213 LASCARIS, CONSTANTINE. De Octo Partibus Orationis…de Constructione. Greek and Roman types, with the Greek and Latin sheets interleaved. Large, bold Hebrew alphabet letters toward end. ff. 273, 20. A clean copy. Later gilt-ruled limp vellum, light wear. 4to.[Adams L-228; Renouard (A) 58.1] Venice, Aldus Manutius the Elder, 1512. $5000-7000 ❧ The third and most complete edition of an influential Greek grammar. Issued along with Aldus’s short exposition on the Hebrew alphabet with Hebrew font likely cut by Francesco Griffo of the Soncino Press. See A. Marx, Hebrew Type in Non-Hebrew Books in: Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944) p. 311. This grammar by Constantine Lascaris of Constantinople (d.1501) was the first book printed entirely in Greek. Giovannu Crastone later prepared a Latin translation, and these texts subsequently circulated together. Lascaris’s methodology, based on progressive language learning, was considered so effective by Renaissance and post- Renaissance teachers that, over the course of time, his grammar supplanted Chrysolora’s Erotemta as the favored text for learning Greek. In the later Aldine editions a progressively larger amount of material was added to the grammar. The present edition contains: Letters from Aldus the Elder, Grammatica Graeca I, Erotemata, de octo partibus orationis I, Grammatica Graeca II, de constructione, Grammatica Graeca III, de promine, de subscriptis vocalibus, de dialectis, Greek register, Latin register, Apostles Creed, John 1:1-14, two poems on Phocylides, the introduction perbrevis ad Hebraicam linguam, and more. Lot 213 Lot 212