May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
INCREASE MATHER'S PENTATEUCH (BIBLE. POLYGLOT.) Biblia Hebraica. [Hamisha Humshei Tora. Pentateuchus.] [60], 659, [1] pages * Libri Jehoshuah, Judicum, Samuelis, et Regum, Hebraice. 583 pages. bound with: Divrei ha-Yamim. Libri duo Paralipomenon, Hebraice. [549]-763 pages. and: Psalmi Davidis Hebraici. 183 pages * Proverbia Salomonis [etc.] . . . Hebraice. [185]-548 pages. bound with: Nevi'im Aharonim. Isaias [et al.] . . . Hebraice. 100 leaves, 101-527, [1] pages * Bibliorum pars Graeca quae Hebraice non invenitur. 344 pages. bound with: Novum Testamentum Graece. 681, [7] pages. Together, 8 volumes in 4. 8vo, first volume in early 19th-century 1/4 sheep, covers detached, the rest in contemporary calf, second volume rebacked in the early 19th-century, all with shelf label on spines and varying wear or damage to spine ends; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining; institutional bookplates. [Leiden]: Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1610-15

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Hebrew Bible and Greek Apocrypha and New Testament, with interlinear Latin translation throughout. Vinograd, Leiden 26. with the signature of the massachusetts puritan minister increase mather (1639-1723) dated 1686 on the general title of the Pentateuch.