Philology & Hebraica.- Bahur (Eliyahu) Sefer Meturgeman lexicon Chaldaicum, second edition, 1560; and others similar (18)

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Philology & Hebraica.- Bahur (Eliyahu) Sefer Meturgeman lexicon Chaldaicum..., second edition, text in Hebrew, woodcut device to title and final f., extremities rubbed with a few marks, Cologne, Arnold Birckmann, 1560 Buxtorf (Joannes) Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum Et Rabbinicum..., additional engraved title and 1 portrait, text in double column in Latin and Hebrew, ink marginalia and annotations throughout, a couple of tears to engraved title with some marginal loss and a few elsewhere, Basel, Ludwig König, 1639, scattered spotting and foxing, later library cloth, [VD16 ZV 28661; VD17 12:128989V]; and others similar, including a 13 vol. set of "Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum" (1732-7), 4to & folio (18) *** Johannes Buxtorf the Elder (1564-1629) was professor of Hebrew at the University of Basle. Published posthumously in 1639 from his original manuscript, it was edited by his son, Johannes Buxtorf the Younger, and served as an important reference for Christian scholars studying Hebrew and Jewish literature.

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