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(JUDAICA.) Martinez, Pierre. Mafteah Leshon ha-Kodesh, that is, The Key of the Holy Tongue. 204, [4]; 174, [2]; 98, [4] (of [6]) pages, including leaf with note to reader and 2 (of 3) blanks; lacks blank 2G4. 8vo, modern blind-ruled calf in period style, spine slightly faded, rubbed at top; paper brittle, browned in margins throughout, worming in blank lower margin through much of volume, title reinforced along edges on verso. Leiden: Franciscus Raphelengius, 1593
First edition in English of the author's 1568 Grammatica hebraea, translated by the Puritan theologian John Udall. This was the first Hebrew grammar in English. Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld 10; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch 1255; STC 17523; Vinograd, Leiden 14.
