PFEIFFER (Augustus). Dubia vexata script. sacrae [...]. Leip - Lot 156

PFEIFFER (Augustus). Dubia vexata script. sacrae [...]. Leipzig and Frankfurt, Martin Gabriel Hubner, s.d. [1685]. 2 parts in a large volume in-4, vellum over boards, handwritten title on spine, red edges (Binding of the period). This work on religious symbolism, first published in 1679, was written by Augustus Pfeiffer (1640-1698), a great philologist of his time who was said to know 70 languages and had a very extensive library of Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Armenian, Persian and Chinese manuscripts. (Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, t. III, p. 83.) This edition features a handsome copper-engraved title-frontispiece and 5 fold-out plates. Handwritten bookplate on upper flyleaf. Short title at foot, incomplete with author's portrait. Endpapers missing.