Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO. Variae lectiones Veteris Testamenti librorum [with Scholia critica in Veteris Testamenti libros]. [8], clx, 116; xiv, [2], 264; viii, [2], 268; xxxii, [2], 242; xvi, 144 pages, including half-titles. Some use of Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac type. Together, 5 volumes. 4to, 284x213 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 leather gilt, spines and joints worn, some spine ends chipped; ink number stamped on verso of titles, dampstain in lower outer corner of last several leaves in Volume 4, contents otherwise generally clean. Parma, 1784-98

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first edition, complete with the supplement, of a compilation of variant readings in the text of the Hebrew Bible based on the examination of over 700 manuscripts and 300 printed editions. Brooks 279, 731.