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BARTOLOCCI, GIULIO.
Bibliotheca magna rabbinica de scriptoribus, &
scriptis Hebraicis.
10 letterpress tables in Volume 2, all but one folding;
LACKS THE POR
-
TRAIT
. [24], 831, [1]; [16], 923, [1]; [12], 1002, [2]; [16], lxxvi, 683, [1] pages, including
half-titles. 4 volumes * IMBONATI, CARLO GIUSEPPE.
Bibliotheca Latino-
Hebraica
[with
Shema Yisrael: Adventus Messiae a Judaeorum blasphemiis, ac
haereticorum clumniis vindicatus
]. Engraved portrait of the author. [16], 549, [1]; 277,
[7] pages, including half-title. 2 parts in one volume. Together, 5 volumes. Folio, Bartolocci
324 x 212 mm in contemporary sheep gilt, badly worn, Volume 3 needs rebacking, with
contents partly loose and marginal dampstaining with traces of mold on opening leaves,
Imbonati 324x212 mm in 19th-century
1
/
4
sheep, spine darkened with white ink shelf num-
ber, ends chipped, covers detached, contents browned. St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
stamp on title and accession number on next leaf in each volume.
Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1675-93; 1694
[500/750]
FIRST EDITIONS
.
“Bartolocci’s work is the first systematic, all-inclusive bibliography of Jewish
literature” (EJ). It was completed after his death by Imbonati, who added a supplement compris-
ing a bibliography of Christian writings on Jews and Judaism, and a polemic against Jewish
denial of the messiahship of Jesus. EJ IV, 265, and VIII, 1292; Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 72.
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BASIL, Saint.
Opera plane divina.
Latin translations by Joannes Argyropoulos,
Georgius Trapezuntius, and Raffaele Maffei;
edited by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples. Title
within woodcut historiated border with
Badius printing press device. Folio, 323x207
mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over
wooden boards with brass catch and vel-
lum endleaves, worn, backstrip and clasp
lacking; contents generally clean apart
from marginal repairs on q3 and 2v3,
marginal browning and worming on last
few leaves, 2 holes in last leaf causing text
loss, rear free endleaf lacking. Ownership
inscriptions of the Westphalian Benedictine
Abbey of Liesborn.
[Paris]: (Jodocus Badius, 13 November
1520)
[800/1,200]
Second collected edition in Latin after the first
of 1515; the original Greek text was published
in 1551. Hoffmann I, 412; Sarton I, 362.
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BASIL, Saint.
Omnia . . . quae extant, opera.
Latin translation by Janus Cornarius.
[8], 758, [26] pages, including last leaf with printer’s device. Folio, 322x222 mm, contem-
porary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps; title foxed
with indistinct early ownership inscription, last leaf heavily foxed; leather fore-edge tabs. St.
Charles Borromeo Seminary bookplate.
FIRST CORNARIUS EDITION
.
Basel: Officina Frobeniana, 1540
[500/750]