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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Second edition. Sammelband of two works (jointly issued), the latter in two parts, quarto. [12], 174, [1, errata], [1, blank]; [12], 732 (pp. 353-360 repeated), xvii addenda, [19, index], x addenda, [28, index], [1 emendanda], [1 blank]pp. All four addenda and indices to the De theologia gentili bound following the second part. Each work with woodcut printer's device at title; occasional woodcut lettrines; printed marginalia. De idololatria with Hebrew text and Latin translation in parallel columns, interspersed with Latin notes. Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled), manuscript title at spine, intermittant light dampstain (largely confined to first work), else crisp, clean, and amply margined. Collation: I. [asterisk]4 2[asterisk]2, A-Y4 (= 94 leaves); II. [asterisk]4 2[asterisk]2, A-2P4, 2Q-4Y4 4Z2, [asterisk]-4[asterisk]4 5[asterisk]2, [cross]-5[cross]4 (= 414 leaves, 2Y-2Y4 repeated). Re-issue of the first edition (1641) of the first two books (of four) of G. J. Vossius' De theologia gentili, with new preliminaries, including an Elegy written by Caspar Barlaeus on the occasion of the death of Gerhard's son, Dionysius, dated IV Kal. Novembris MDCXXXIII [1633], and a preface by another of Vossius' sons, Isaac; along with an edition of the Hebrew text of Maimonides' treatment of the laws of idolotry in the first book of the Mishneh Torah, with accompanying Latin translation, by Dionysius Vossius. "The work has a two-fold aim. In the first place it is a Theologia gentilis. Of this the subtitle says that the work treats. the origin and history of heathen mythologies and cult forms. But at the same time the book is a Physiologia christiana, a study 'de naturae mirandis quibus homo adducitur ad Deum', an account, as complete as possible, of the rich diversity of all creation that in the inention of the creator must serve to reveal to man the greatness of God. It is simultaneously an ambitiously arranged textbook of mythology, a summary of what was written about nature in all its manifestations up until Vossius' time, and finally also a first specimen of what would be done profusely in the eighteenth century, a book on the natural knowledge of God" (Rademaker). Provenance: The manuscript entry "Jan de Wind. 17 april An. 1697.". References: J. I. Dienstag, "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin", in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume, 31 (De idololatria). Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 202 (De idololatria, ed. 1641), noting that there exist copies without the Hebrew text. The 1641 ed. contains no preliminaries after the title. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis, esp. pp.24-25. Rademaker, Life and Work of G.J. Vossius (Assen, 1981), no. 24: "In his last large work, the Theologia gentilis. he dared to make full use of Scaliger's [chronological] innovations" (185). For more detailed commentary see: pp. 306-310. For Dionysius see 163f.

Modern calf. Zustand: Good-. First edition. Quarto (19 by 14.6 cm). Collation: [asterisk]4 A-2G4. [8], 240 pp. Woodcut printer's device at title; 4 half-titles; printed marginalia. Text in Latin. Recent full polished calf to style, spine with raised bands. Text lightly toned, with damstaining/spotting (especially at outermost leaves); occasional slight chips or small tears at margins; one leaf with perforation resulting in loss of several letter on each side of page; small perforation in blank field at title. A fairly good copy. First part only of the first Latin edition of this classic work on Jewish apologetics, written by the celebrated rabbi, religious thinker, and printer-publisher, Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657). The work was first published in Spanish at Amsterdam in four parts between 1632 and 1651. By providing a harmonization of all the apparent contradictions within the Hebrew Scriptures, he hoped to encourage converso Jews of Iberian descent who had lost touch with their religious heritage to make the return to rabbinic Judaism. The present volume deals with the Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses); the second volume treats the Prophetic books and the Hagiographa (Writings). The work was first published a year earlier in a Spanish language edition. The work attempts resolution to no less than 180 seeming discrepancies in the Pentateuch. The breadth of Menasseh's encyclopedic knowledge is vast, the Conciliador contains citations from 221 Jewish and 54 non-Jewish authorities. "No reader could fail to be impressed by the amazing range of titles which the author proudly appended to the work" (Roth). References: Kayserling, p. 69; C. Roth, A Life of Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi, Printer, and Diplomat (Philadelphia, 1945), p. 88. Silva Rosa 16. Full title and imprint: Conciliator, sive De convenientia locorum S. Scripturae, quae pugnare inter se videntur. Opus ex vetustis, & recentioribus omnibus Rabbinis, magnâ industriâ, ac fide congestum. Amstelodami. Auctoris typis & impensis. M.D C XXXIII.

Translation of Voornaemste gheschiedenissen in de Nederlanden ende elders, first published in Dutch in 1626. Title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. [10], 561 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Upper board with the coat of arms of Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán (1600-1668), duke of Medina de las Torres and the Spanish viceroy of Naples from 1637 to 1644, quartered with those of his second wife: Anna Caraffa (1607-1644), Duchess of Mondragone, Sabbioneta and Trajetto, Princess of Stigliano. The abbreviation FEI means 'Fortuna etiam invidente'. Lower board with her arms and the motto REVOLUTA FOECUNDANT. The letters around the two coats of arms, forming a necklace (C. G. D. D. M. M. A. H. P. P. M. I. G. P. C. L. A.), are the first letters of the motto of the Count of Olivares: Comitatui Grandatum Ducatum Marchionatum Marchionatum Arcis Hispalensis Perpetuam Praefecturam Magnam Indiarum Guzmanorum Primam Chancellariatum Lineam Additit. Other identically decorated bindings bearing the arms of the Duke of Medina de Las Torres are known: a binding that appeared in the catalog of the first Wittock sale (2004, no. 77, covering a Heidelberg edition of 1590, described as a Spanish binding) and one in the catalog of the Maurice Burrus sale (I, 2015, no. 79, covering a Florentine edition of 1504), where it was described by Isabelle de Conihout as being of Neapolitan manufacture. The Jeanson copy of Libro de la Monterio (1582), was similarly bound Ramiro returned to Spain in 1644 he took a part of the library with him. After his death the library was bought by William Godolphin (1635-96), then English ambassador to Spain. Some of her books remained in Naples, in the Biblioteca dei Girolamini and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, but a portion did reach the market (including Utrecht Univ. MS 764, in a binding of similar execution). cf. Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, pp. 120-121, pl. XXVI. Provenance: Duke of Medina de Las Torres (arms); General Theological Seminary (bookplates and blindstamps) Contemporary red morocco gilt, upper cover with scroll borders, central arms of Medina de las Torres, within cyphered frame, lower board seme with starry sky over the earth with three plants and the motto REVOLVTA FOECVNDANT at head, a.e.g. Some rubbing at edges, worming to lower joint Title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. [10], 561 pp. 1 vols. Folio Translation of Voornaemste gheschiedenissen in de Nederlanden ende elders, first published in Dutch in 1626.

Amsterdam, Joh. et Corn. Blaeu, 1642. 4to. Fine copy. Contemp. laced overlapping vellum, blue spickled edges, spine slightly dam. on top. Vellum slightly soiled. Convolute of 2 works. First edition, second impression. The first impression is dated 1641 and lacks the introduction and the poem by Barlaeus. Dionysius prepared his edition and translation of Maimonides' {Hilkhot Avodah Zarah} in cooperation with Menasseh ben Israel and in fact died shortly after he had finished the work in Amsterdam (1633). His father was much impressed by the book and decided to publish it together with his own study on the origin and progression of idolatry which took a couple of years. On page 11/12 a poem by Caspar Barlaeus dedicated to Gerard in commemoration of the death of Dionysius on October 25th, 1633. Fuks, Hebrew typography Vol. I, nr. 202.