Bible

1731 · LV1890 — Amsterdam:: R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith 1731. 1731. 4to. xii 750 pp. Half title engraved title printer’s device title printed in red and black main body of text printed in double columns separate half-title-page: Davidis Regis et Prophetae Psalmi . . . Z2; Liber Proverbiorum Salomonis Zzz1; upper edge of pp. 242-254 nicked. Some pages misnumbered. Contemporary full calf gilt-stamped spine and red leather spine label 6 raised bands; front cover detached rear cover hanging from 1 cord spine missing pieces – needs rebinding. Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to title-page and following page. As is. This is the final 1731 work of Leclerc’s commentaries on the Bible that began in 1693 with his Book of Genesis being in particular the sections on Jacob Psalms of David Solomon Proverbs etc. "Founding principally on the position that more recent objects are referred to in the Canon than such as were known in the time of Ezra Leclerc was of opinion that the collection of the Canon is due to the zealous endeavours of pious individuals who had preserved the separate parts of it until the reading of the Prophets along with the Law came into use in the age of the Maccabees which rendered the collecting of the whole necessary" Havernick p. 33. Chetham’s Library and the Cambridge copies both have 3 folding plates but no evidence of plates maps in 15 other copies listed on Copac. No plates are in this copy. REFERENCES: BM compact ed. vol. 3 p. 45; Havernick Heinrich Andreas C. A General Historico-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament Tr. by W.L. Alexander Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1852. R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith, 1731. hardcover books