Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £180 |
MOREIRA, Jacob Rodrigues (editor, dates unknown). Kehilath Jahacob: Being a Vocabulary of Words in the Hebrew Language, Arranged in Fifty Eight Chapters, On Various Subjects and Methodically Digested Under Different Heads, Together with an Explination [sic] of the Different Words, Peculiar Phrases and Technical Terms, Found in the Holy Bible and Divers other Eminent and Rabbinical Writers Done into English and Spanish. [London:] Printed by A. Alexander, "AM. 5533" [i.e. 1773]. 4to (262 x 215mm). Hebrew title within engraved border by M. Marrebeeck, with additional letterpress titles in English and Spanish, woodcut ornaments, printed largely in triple column in Hebrew, English and Spanish (very minor repairs to Hebrew title, some light spotting, staining and browning). Modern quarter black buckram, new endpapers. Provenance: from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION.