Basel: Johan Jacobum Deckerum Academic Typography, 1661. Second(?) edition. Engraved frontispiece with title and illustrations, two color title-page. Blind-panelled English calf boards, gilt tooling on spine. Printed on laid paper. Paper edges once stained red. Paper toned from age, foxing. Newer marbled endpapers. Binding strong, repaired. Boards and spine cracked with losses, all extremities with bumps and losses.
Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, born in Westphalia, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, Synagoga Judaica (1st. ed. 1603), scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period.
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