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168338984Londini: Milonis Flesher pr. for the author sold by Pitt & Aylmer 1683. 4to 23 cm 9.1". 16 450 2 blank pp. Pp. 223/24 Ff3 lacking. <br><br>First edition: erudite translations of eight treatises. Born Jewish the French scholar Louis de Compiègne de Veil studied theology at the Sorbonne after converting to Christianity and set out to translate the whole of Maimonides' Yad ha-Chazakah from Hebrew into Latin. The present work encompasses the Sefer ha-Korbanot the section on sacrifices along with the portion on consecration of new moons and intercalations and Isaac Abravanel's preface to his commentary on Leviticus; the latter gives the => Hebrew and Latin texts on facing pages. Each section has a divisional title-page with continuous pagination. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC R25499; Wing rev. ed. M2854. Contemporary mottled calf framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; refurbished and nicely rebacked with speckled calf spine with blind-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label original leather pitted and worn. All page edges speckled red. Front fly-leaf title-page and one other institutionally rubber-stamped; Ff3 either a sectional title or a blank leaf lacking. Pages gently age-toned and cockled with a few corners bumped; small ink smudge in upper outer portions of two facing pages. "Exordium" with intermittent pencilled underlining and two marginal annotations pencilled in English. => Interesting 17th-century Judaica in a strong and decent copy. Milonis Flesher (pr. for the author, sold by Pitt & Aylmer) hardcover books
163834941Granatae i.e. Granada: Apud Vincentium Aluarez à Mariz 1638. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 16 260 50 ff. <br><br>Vela 15881643 held one of the chairs of law at the University of Salamanca and went on to be a high court judge in Seville and later Granada. He was the author of three important works on canon and Roman law of which this was the second to come off a press. He left unpublished a second volume of this work that appeared 10 years after his death is rarely found with vol. I and is more dedicated to civil law.<br>Â Â Â Â First edition. Printed in double-column format in roman and italic the volume begins with a large engraved coat of arms of the Count Duke Olivares on the title-page signed "I. de Courbes Fecit"; also by Courbes opposite "fol. I" is a large in-text => engraved portrait of the author.<br>Â Â Â Â The prefatory matter includes => epigrams by Manuel Barbosa Francisco Bermudez de Pedraza Ramón de Morales and Michael Verdejo Carvajal.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Gift inscription to Lic. Jose Maria Herrera from Ezequiel Montes dated 13 August 1860.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two copies of vol. I in the U.S. and none of vol. II. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 356893. On Vela see: Archivo biográfico de España Portugal e Iberoamérica fiche 996 frame 355. 19th-century full mottled calf gilt spine; title-page with old repair away from text. Some sections age-toned. Occasional small areas of light waterstains. Worming in some margins in a few instances with old repair; worming in text but this remarkably between lines or columns and not costing any words. Over all a very good copy. Apud Vincentium Aluarez à Mariz unknown books
