Edited by van ess leander (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 9th Edition. Type: Book 1027 pp. vellum spine and cream paper covered boards withblack and old gold on spine. Without a dust jacket. Text in Greek. (small cracks at top edge of spine and creased separated from spine, bdg. lightly soiled, paper yellowed and lightly browned at edges) Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request. Photo scan available. Shipments to USA, USPS via Canada Post Express; FREE OF CUSTOMS OR DUTY CHARGE.…

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.75 x 9.25 inches. [2] + ii + 1022 pp + [2] pp. index. Greek and Latin titles and Greek text in double columns with Latin preface and translation of index at end. Bound in original full vellum, gilt; spine in compartments decorated gilt with contrasting morocco title labels. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Some light foxing but otherwise a fine copy. Signature on verso of first free endpaper. Greek Old Testament or Septuagint, including Apocrypha, in the Sixtine text of 1587, edited by Dr. Leander van Ess (1777-1847) for the use of theological students and printed in Leipzig. Van Ess, a German Catholic theologian from Westphalia whose birth name was Johann Heinrich. He served as professor of Theology at the University of Marburg but later resigned and devoted all his time to promoting the distribution of bibles in the vernacular and translating the Catholic bible into German (he had published the New Testament in 1807 and completion of the Old Testament eventually followed in 1836). A handsome edition of the Greek Septuagint. HISTORY/THEOLOGY BIBLES THEOLOGY- CHRISTIAN BIBLES GREEK 19TH CENTURY HISTORY/THEOLOGY. …