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CHEVALLIER, ANTOINE-RODOLPHE. Alphabetum Hebraicum. Hebrew (printed in vocalized square and unvocalized Rashi types) and Latin text. [24] leaves. 8vo, 165x106 mm, contemporary limp vellum; light dampstain in lower margin of a few consecutive leaves. [Geneva]: Oliva Henrici Stephani, 1566
first chevallier edition of one of several Hebrew primers with closely similar titles and contents published by the Estienne presses, all quite scarce. The first example of Hebrew printing from the Geneva press of Henri Estienne, this edition contains a greatly expanded selection of reading matter. Chevallier (1523–72) was a French Protestant Hebraist who taught at Cambridge, where he tutored Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. Renouard (Estienne) I, 125(3), and II, 397; Schreiber 158; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch 82; no edition has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current.
