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BOCHART, Samuel

"Geographia Sacra Cujus Pars Prior Phaleg De Dispersione Gentium & terrarum divisione facta in aedificatione turris Babel; Pars Posterior Chanaan De coloniis & sermone Phoenicum agit ..."
Francofurti ad Moneum
Johann David Zunner
1681
€300 - €400

4to, [38] - 360 pp, [24], pp. 361-864, 70, [138] pp, with an engraved portrait, 4 folding engraved maps (Mediterranean, Spain, Italy, North Africa, Sicily, Greece) and a folding table. Ms. ownership on title-page. Foxing. First quire somewhat loosening. Contemporary calf inding, ends of spine and corners worn, mottled edges, spine richly gilt

"Cf. Laor 115. First published in 1646. Samuel Bochart was a French Protestant biblical scholar, who possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic. His two-volume ""Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan"" exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. ""Phaleg"" comments on the descendance of the nations described in Genesis, ""Canaan"" comments on the Phoenicians, their language and their colonies"