[Rarebooks] FS - Johanne Leusden 1672

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LEUSDEN, JOHANNE  * /PHILOLOGUS HEBRAEUS, Continens Quaestiones 
Hebraicas, qua Circa Vetus Testamentum Hebraeum fere moveri solent/*
Utrecht, Netherlands, Meinardi a Dreunen 1672, 2nd edition. Illustrated 
with copper engravings. Recent professional re-bind in full slate blue 
leather. 8vo, pp. 400, 53. The spine is in compartments with titling 
stamped in gold. New, complimentary, hand-marbled endpapers.

¶ Johanne Leusden (1624-1699) was a professor, and expert in biblical 
Hebrew and Greek, at the University of Utrecht. Meinhard (or Meinardus) 
van Dreunen (also, Meinhardi a Dreunen) was a Dutch printer, based in 
Utrecht, whose work appeared mainly from about 1653 to 1672. He also 
published a copy of Leusden's famous Biblia Hebraica. There is a small 
oval stamp of Manitoba College on the first blank page. The 
finely-detailed engraved frontispiece of Leusden is present, as is the 
historiated engraved title page, opposite. Bound with this volume, at 
the end (back to front in the Hebrew style), is a 53 page monograph by 
Leusden entitled: "Sexcenta & Tredecim PRAECEPTA MOSAICA, a Maimonide ex 
Pentateucho Hebraice olim excerpta, qua, additis locis Pentateuchi, 
Latine translata hic ordine exhibentur" published in Utrecht in 1686 by 
Francisci Halma. The contents are remarkably clean, with little foxing 
or age-toning. The last page (pp. 439/440) is a bit soiled and worn, but 
the text is still legible. Digital photos can be made available upon 
request.
  
Price: $950.00

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