Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 16, 2018
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LOT 57:
HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.
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Sold for: $550
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600 - $900
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25%
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Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI
FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text
pp. (12), 401, (13). Browned and lightly stained, title remargined, neat marginal repair to final leaf. Contemporary boards, Valmadona-custom gilt-tiled morocco spine-label, rubbed. Sm. 4to. Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414.
Zürich: Joh. Jacob Bodmer 1655
Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, Hottinger (1620-67) was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis (see EJ Vol. VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in Aaron Halevi’s Sepher HaChinuch.
