Auction 87
HEBREW & JUDAIC PRINTED BOOKS
Jan 16, 2020
USA
242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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LOT 76:
BUXTORF, JOHANNES.
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BUXTORF, JOHANNES.
(The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum.
Additional, elaborately engraved title-page, and engraved frontispiece portrait of Buxtorf.
ff. (8), 2680 columns, ff. (32). Foxed with light wear. Contemporary vellum, spine distressed, upper cover starting. Thick folio. Prijs, Basle 237.
Basle: Ludwig Koenig 1639-40
Johannes Buxtorf’s colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum was completed by his son, Johannes the Younger. It served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their studies in Talmud and rabbinics. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543.
Johannes Buxtorf’s colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum was completed by his son, Johannes the Younger. It served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their studies in Talmud and rabbinics. See EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1543.
