8vo. 208 leaves, printer’s woodcut device on the title-page.
This edition not in Graesse.
Original vellum. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Many leaves water-stained.
Carlo Sigonio, c. 1524-1584, Italian humanist. The first edition of this work, which deals with the religious, political and military system
of the Jews, was published in Bologna in 1582.
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J. 102
L’Empereur de legibus Hebraeorum forensibus.
1815 Catalogue, page 100. no. 109, as above,
p 4to.
MISHNAH.
ןיקיזנ תכסממ
′ℵמק ℵבב De legibvs Ebræorvm forensibvs liber singvlaris. Ex Ebræorum pandectis versus & commentariis illustratus: Per Constantinvm L’Emperevr ab Opwyck.
Lvgd.
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Batavorvm, ex officinâ
Elzeviriorum. Anno
c
I
ɔ
I
ɔcxxxvii
. [1637.]
BM506 .B23 L3
4to. 188 leaves,
Latin and
Hebrew text in double columns, annotations in long lines,
Elzevir “solitaire” device on the title-page.
Willems 459.
Calf, repaired, with the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate preserved under later endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I and T.
From the library of Robert Proud, with his autograph signature on the fly-leaf:
Ex Libris Roberti Proudi 1763.
Constantin L’Empereur, c. 1570-1648, Dutch Oriental scholar, was born at Opwyck. He was professor of Hebrew, and later of theology, at the University
of Leyden. Baba Kama Massehet Nezikin is a tract from the Mishnah dealing with damages for losses sustained in everyday life.
Robert Proud was the author of the
History of Pennsylvania
, q.v.
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J. 103
Cragus de republica Lacedaemoniorum.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 96. no. 19, as above.
KRAG,
Niels.
Nic. Cragii Ripensis de republica Lacedæmoniorum libri
iv.--[Heraclidæ Pontici de politiis libellus cum interpretatione
Latina, edente Nicolae Cragio.]--[Ex Nicolai Damasceni universali historia seu de moribus gentium libris excerpta Johannis Stobæi collectanea, quæ Nicolaus Cragius
latina fecit, & seorsum edidit.]
Lvgdvni Batavorvm: ex officinâ
Joannis à Gelder [excudebat
Abrahamus Verhoef],
cl
ɔ
l
ɔclxx
. [1670.]
JC79 .S7 K8
Sm. 8vo. 3 parts in 1. 296 leaves including the last blank, separate-title pages, continuous signatures and pagination; printer’s
woodcut device on each title-page; colophon on the last page;
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages in the last two tracts.
Old sprinkled calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Niels Krag [Cragius], d. 1602, Danish historian. The first edition of this work was published in Geneva in 1593, quarto.
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