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Iosue & Iudices [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true...

Liber Paralipomenon [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true...

Prophetia Ieremiae [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true...

Prophetia Ezechielis [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1543, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
Numerous contemporary Latin annotations, certainly by a scholar.

[TORAH] Quinque libri legis [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1546, 16mo (7x11,5cm), 5 bound volumes.
First 16mo edition of the Torah in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. Printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
Slightly later brown morocco bindings (1590-1615), two of the volumes with a smooth spine, the three others with gilt raised bands, gilt tooled boards, all edges gilt. Some wormholes on the fifth volume, not affecting the text. Numerous contemporary Latin marginalia, mainly in the first two volumes.
This five-volume Torah includes...

Samuel [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on the title page. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the...

Psalterium [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume in brown morocco.

“This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.”

(A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)

First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. Brown morocco slightly later binding (1590-1615), edges rubbed.
Elegant printer's woodcut device on title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew. Numerous contemporary Latin marginalia and Humanist...

Proverbia Salomonis & Iob [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true...

Prophetia Isaiae [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true...

Duodecim Prophetae [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
Numerous contemporary Latin annotations, certainly by a scholar...

Daniel & Esdras [& Nehemiah] [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1546, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
A few minute contemporary annotations at the beginning of the volume...