Bibliotheca Hebraea

Hamburg & Leipzig: Christian Leibezeit, 1715.
First Edition.

21.5cm x 17.5cm. [6], 40, 1161, [35], 24 pages, frontispiece. Full vellum, manuscript lettering, blindstamped decoration to upper and lower boards, blind rules. Text is in Latin and Hebrew.

[Hebrew Library: or information both of Hebrew authors of any age, and of writers, which were either first written in Hebrew or converted by others, and brought to our age: at the end is Jacobi Gaffarelli’s Index Codicum Cabbalistic. MSS.] The first part only in this four volume work, being a bibliography of rabbinic leaders. The later parts published in 1721, 1727, and 1733. This copy with the frontispiece etching of people studying in a large library and the armorial bookplate of Charles Robert Colvile.

Spine tanned. Rubbing to board fore-edges and spine crown. Small crack at crown of lower joint, still firm. Minor bumping to upper tail fore-edge corner. Small contemporary ownership signature to title. Very occasional minor or very minor soil. Marginal open tear to tail edge of leaf Uuuuuu. Very Good Condition.

AU$1,000.00

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