Miscellaneous Discourses Relating to the Traditons and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees In Our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ's Time. In Two Volumes. (.) (2 vols.)

London, Printed by W. Bowyer, for Tim. Goodwin at the Queen's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet., 1718. LVI, 318 pp. and a folded engraving with 12 images (vol.I); (16), 279, (26) pp. and 2 folding engravings (vol.II). Both vols. with some foxing. Good set.Uniform modern leather bindings, gold-printed spines, new endpapers. First editions. In the preface the author refutes the opinion of Isaac Vossius 'who despises every thing which he calls Rabbinical and gives preference to Dr. Lightfoot who takes so much pains 'to illustrate the most considerable books of the N.T. out of the Talmudic writers'. With an index on both volumes in vol. II, which has a separate title: 'Shabbath and Eruvin; Two Titles of the Misna or Code of the Traditional Laws, Which were observed by the Scribes and Pharisees In our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christs's Time. Translated into English, with Annotations'. Pictures will be sent on request.