Johannis Buxtorfi Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum

  • Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana, 1735
By Johann Buxtorf
Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana, 1735. Very Good-. Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana, 1735. "Edition Novissima." Thick octavo (18cm.); full contemporary blind-tooled roan, unadorned spine in five compartments; [16],976,[76]pp. (collated complete); engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Leather significantly scuffed, joints cracked, paper remnants to both boards and spine crown, occasional foxing and finger soil to textblock, small losses to fore-edge of five leaves (N3, S3, T1, 2K6, and 2P2) with very brief loss of text, contemporary (1756) ownership inscription to front free endpaper, mid 20th-century typescript biography of Buxtorf in Slovak tipped to rear free endpaper.

Oft-reprinted Hebrew, Aramaic, and Latin lexicon by the Hebraist professor Johann Buxtorf (1564-1629).

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