LEUSDEN, Johanne. PHILOLOGUS HEBRAEUS, CONTINENS QUAESTIONES HEBRAICAS, QUA CIRCA VETUS TESTAMENTUM HEBRAEUM FERE MOVERI SOLENT.

Recent professional re-bind in full slate blue leather. Published by Meinardi a Dreunen, Utrecht, Netherlands.
1672. 2nd edition, 8vo, pp. 400, 53. The spine is in compartments with titling stamped in gold. New, complimentary, hand-marbled endpapers.

Johanne Leusden (1624-1699) was a professor, and expert in biblical Hebrew and Greek, at the University of Utrecht. Meinhard (or Meinardus) van Dreunen (also, Meinhardi a Dreunen) was a Dutch printer, based in Utrecht, whose work appeared mainly from about 1653 to 1672. He also published a copy of Leusden's famous Biblia Hebraica. A very fine re-binding of this book has recently been completed. There is a small oval stamp of Manitoba College on the first blank page. The finely-detailed engraved frontispiece of Leusden is present, as is the historiated engraved title page, opposite. Bound with this volume, at the end (back to front in the Hebrew style), is a 53 page monograph by Leusden entitled: Sexcenta & Tredecim PRAECEPTA MOSAICA, a Maimonide ex Pentateucho Hebraiceolim excerpta, qua, additis locis Pentateuchi, Latine translata hic ordine exhibentur published in Utrecht in 1686 by Francisci Halma. The contents are remarkably clean, with little foxing or age-toning. The last page (pp. 439/440) is a bit soiled and worn, but the text is still legible.
    
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