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HEILIGE AUGEN- UND GEMUETHS-LUST in 2 parts bound with BIBLISCHES ENGEL- UND KUNST-WERCK

1706Best.-Nr. E75609Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krausen 1st edition of the 1st work. 1706 at preface 1715. Hardcover. Good. full page copperplate frontispiece quater page copperplate engraving to titlepage and quarter page headpiece to Preface Illustration to PART TWO full-page frontis to this Twenter sic Theil 120 Full page copperplates copperplate frontis to 1715 S. folio 315 x 203mm black morocco spine on 5 raised bands gilt titled & gilt decorations to raised bands & compartments ruled in gilt small leather tips to corners. Black cloth sides. rubbed to head and foot of spine & all edges/ two small cloth losses else sound and neat Half-title in large decorative script frontis. titlepage 4pp=Preface dated 1706 by Kraus 1p =Register 1p=blank 70 copperplates Copperplate title with large illustration to Second Part Second different frontispiece plates numbered 71 - 120. BOUND WITH copperplate titlepage by Kraus dated 1715 fullpsge frontispiece 30 further plates.The printed titlepage is somewhat cropped at the top to the word "BIBLISCHES" with loss to the curlicues and just touching the capital B. All plates are printed one side only and in the first two parts of the 1706 book each has a large rectangular picture with a heading above and 3 lines of text below. The lower half having 3 line of text above the emblematic illustrations which usually consisted of an elaborate circular frame often with smaller roundelles within the frame including some captions or text and with a central illustration. This additional Title has a similar format of large rectangular illustration under a title but the lines below are in six line paired couplets and the emblematic pictures in the bottom half are of more varied shapes such as octagonals two-part pictues free flying figures and some rather larger engravings. All of these elements are printed from one large copperplate of 28 x 17cm. There are 7 tears without loss including 2 with old repair leaving slight discolouration. None of the tears touch any printed matter all but 1 are in the marginwith the one in the plate area but not into any illustrated part. There is some finger soiling mainly to the lower corner minor foxing and one small hole due small ink spot having eaten a .5cm hole in the paper with the page before and after having a small residual stain from this but it is very near to the edge of the picture so is hardly noticeable. Previous owner's stamp to blank endpaper at front and rearsame to corner of first half title no other markings. The 2nd edition of the Augen- & Gemueths-Lust was printed in 8vo. Landwehr V 390-91 Brunet III 697 Johann Ulrich Krausen 1st edition of the 1st work. hardcover

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Toviyahu ben Eliezer ( also Tobiah or Tuvia ben Eliezer; fl11th century). l 1ABAA

Hebrew Pesikta Zutarta

1546Best.-Nr. 5968Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Daniel Bomberg 1546. First edition. Very Good. Folio 32 cm; 93 leaves. Text in Hebrew. Title within architectural border reproduced in Amram "Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy" p. 215 also in the Jewish Museum's 1989 exhibition catalogue "Gardens and Ghettos: the Art of Jewish Life in Italy" page 50. Some section headings within ornamental borders. Bound in c19 or c20 dark red crushed morocco ruled in gilt and decorated with arabesques on both boards; spine with raised bands and compartments tooled and titled in gilt; green polished leather doublures with red crushed morocco dentelles bordered in pointillé accented with arabesques; green moiré free endleaves. Edges gilt. Binding not signed. Joints and crown adroitly reinforced with Japanese paper; corners somewhat worn down. Occasional contemporary notes in manuscript in text; brief stain on leaf mem-tet and lightly along the bottom edge of leaves nun-bet and nun-gimmel. Text otherwise pristine. Title page light possibly washed. Old library ink stamps from an institution in Warsaw on title page. Red morocco ex-libris of mining magnate and philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn 1849-1938. References: Adams T-766; BM Italian 674; Steinschneider 7304 #1; Amram 215 illustration and 222. First printed edition editio princeps of the 11th century commentary on portions of the pentateuch by the Bulgarian poet and Talmudist Tobiah ben Eliezer. Published by the house of the seminal printer of Hebrew books Daniel Bomberg under the supervision of his scholar-in-residence extraordinaire Cornelio Adelkind. Venetian law at this time limited Hebrew publishing to Gentile printers. Bomberg a protestant from Antwerp entered this lucrative market and with Adelkind's help became its prime exponent until his death in 1549. Cornelio Adelkind for Daniel Bomberg hardcover books