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(JUDAICA.) Maimonides, Moses. Liber Moreh Nevukhim. Doctor perplexorum. Latin translation by Johann Buxtorf the Younger. [40], 532, 52 pages. 4to, 17th-century sprinkled sheep, spine darkened, raised bands and cover edges rubbed, short crack at top of front joint; contents browned, blank corner off 3P3. Armorial bookplate of John Hay, Marquess of Tweedale. Basel: Ludwig König for Johann Jacob Genath, 1629
First Buxtorf edition of the author's major philosophical work, made from the Hebrew version by Samuel ibn Tibbon of the Arabic original text. A Latin translation of the Hebrew version by al-Harizi was published in 1520. Sarton II, 376-77.
