SC - More Goodies on Ebay

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

After the period Platina, I thought I would not see a lot more on
Ebay of real interest for a while.  Wrong.  There is an auction on 
the new Ebay Live (item 582868808) for 10 very impressive old
herbals.  These are listed as "early Christian" herbalists.  Here is the
description.  The opening bid is $500.  Maybe interested list
members could club up if they were interested in different volumes.

10 volumes: Muenster, Sebastian. {Dictionarium Hebraicum....} 
Basel: Froben, 1564. 8vo. Full blind-tooled pigskin with brass 
clasps. * Junius, Franciscus. {Grammatica Hebraeae Linguae....} 
Geneva: Wecheli Haeredum, 1596. 8vo. Limp unfinnished vellum. 
* Buxtorf, Joannes, fil. {Florilegium Hebraicum: Continens Elegantes 
Sententias, Proverbia, Apophthegmata, Similitudines....} Basil: 
Koenig, 1648. Bound with: Buxtorf, Joannes. {Instituitio Epistolaris 
Hebraica....} Basil: Ludovici Regis, 1629. 8vo. Full blind-tooled 
pigskin. * another copy of: Buxtorf, Joannes, fil. {Florilegium 
Hebraicum....} Basel: Koenig, 1648. 8vo. Full vellum. * Buxtorf, 
Joannes. {De Abbreviaturis Hebraicis....} Franequerae: Jacobum 
Horreum, 1696. 8vo. Half vellum over paper-covered boards. 
Vellum defective. * Opitius, Henricius. {...Chaldaismus 
Targumico-Talmudico-Rabbinicus Hebraismo Harmonicus....} 
Hamburg: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1696. 3 folding tables. 4to. 
Half vellum over marbled boards. * Navarrius, Petrius Martinius. 
{Grammaticae Hebraeae Libri Duo.} Paris: Martinum Juvenem, 
1567 [but 1716]. Bound with: Clenardus, Nicolaus. {Tabula in 
Grammaticen Hebraeam.} Paris: 1564 [but 1716]. 8vo. Full brown 
calf. * Alting, Jacob. {Fundamenta Punctationis Linguae Sanctae....} 
Frankfurt: Eslingeri, 1746. 8vo. Full calf. * Weitenauer, Ignaz. 
{...Hierolexicon Linguarum Orientalium, Hebraicae, Chaldaicae, 
et Syriacae....} Augsburg & Fribourg: 1759. 8vo. Full calf. 
* Michaelis, Joannes Henricius. {Bruendlicher Unterricht von 
den Accentibus Prosaicis und Metricis, oder Hebraeischen 
Distinctionibus....} 1711. Folding table. 8vo. Half calf over 
marbled boards. All in generally good condition, some with 
infrequent light library stamp, bindings show some wear and 
darkening, but generally sound. Sold w.a.f.|""In the sixteenth 
century, the new critical methods of Renaissance scholarship 
and the energy of the Protestant Reformation both sought once 
again to recover the original sense of the Old Testament. 
The period, in turn, burgeoned with significant works by 
Christian scholars and increasing intellectual contact between 
Christians and Jews."" Langenberg. {Of Many Generations.}

I might bid, but I haven't decided yet.

Akim Yaroslavich
"No glory comes without pain"