Lot 2519: BROUGHTON, HUGH (

1549-1612).
PARSHAGAN NISHTON 'ISH `IVRI ME-`IR LE-KONSTANTIN MEVAKESH DA`AT MESHIHENU `IM ME-KITSAT LEKAH 'EL TE'OTO `AL YEDE HUGO BROGTON. [AMSTERDAM: J. HONDIUS?, 1606?] , FF. [24], TITLE WITHIN AN ENGRAVED BORDER, ILLUSTRATION: 4 ENGRAVED PLATES AND AN ENGRAVED DOUBLE-PAGE MAP (THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES IN LATIN APPEARS ON F. C2 VERSO OF THE LATIN VERSION, WHERE THE HEBREW CAPTIONS ARE TRANSLATED)

BROUGHTON, HUGH (1549-1612).

Ibid. MetafrasiV ponehmatiou ekdoqentoV ebraisti... (Tralatio epistolae hebraeae, qua byzantiaco Iudaeo [Reuben Abraham] respondetur de religione, cum versione vocum hebraearum quae attient iconas adnexas hebraeon opusculo: queis sine haec latina non de facili quibunt intelligi. Interprete ipso auctor. Quod idem graecanice & britannice praestat. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1606, 2 parts, ff. [15]; [10]
Ibid. Maskhath 'al ha-Tahabharoth ha-Jubilim... [On the Jubilee years against the expectation of the Jews of the Messiah]. [Amsterdam: ibid., 1606], ff. [24], foliated 1-4, pp. 5-44 (in Hebrew), dedicated to the Landgrave of Hesse

3 works in one volume, 4to (190 x 140mm.), binding: English calf c. 1700, gilt spine with dolphin motif

PROVENANCE

Inscribed on the first title by Edward Laurence of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (founded 1596), with motto 'Ora Labora' ("Pray and Work").

LITERATURE

Steinschneider 4629, 807.7/8 and 808.10 (4 copies in the Bodleian); L. Fuks & R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815: historical evaluation, and descriptive bibliography (Leiden: Brill, 1984-1987) i, pp. 34-39, who reject the attribution of the printing to the extraordinary Jan Theunisz, and suggest that Hondius may have either done it himself, or had it done. In either case they point out that the printing leaves much to be desired. However these items are very rare.

NOTE

The English translation of the Hebrew letter, which is mentioned on the title-page to the Latin translation, is not present in any copy we have seen described, and is not mentioned in STC.