[Rarebooks] For Sale: Rare Treatise on the Book of Job

[Norman Kane]

We can offer the following rarity:

SCHARER (or SCHAERER), JOH[ANN] RUD[OLF], ED.   DAS BUCH HIOB AUS DEM 
GRUNDTEXT METRICH UBERSETZT UND ERLAUTERT.  .  .  .   Bern: In 
der  Ludw. Rud. Walthardschen Buchhandlungen, 1818.  Octavo, old 
boards with leather spine and tips, rubbed but quite sound, no leaves 
before the title, large bookplate of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co's 
San Francisco Agency Printing Library. [2], LXIV, 202, [2], [203] - 
474, [1] pages.  The inserted leaves are the title pages for parts 
one and two; the last leaf is the addenda.  Part One consists of a 
lengthy Preface and a metrical translation into German with copious 
running notes; the Second Part is a critical/philological commentary 
with reference to Luther and Johannes Piscator.  OCLC locates only 2 
copies: Earlham College and the National Library of Wales.    $ 250.00

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