HE PALAIA DIATHEKE KATA TOUS HEBDOMEKONTA. [TITLE IN GREEK]. SEV VETVS TESTAMENTVM GRAECVM IVXTA SEPTVAGINTA INTERPRETES Ex avctoritate Sixti Qvinti Pontificis Maximi editvm. Ivxta exemplar originale Vaticanum Romae editvm mdlxxxvii qvoad textvm accvratissime et ad amvssim recvsvm. Editio stereotypa. [Spine title:] SEPTUAGINTA ED. VAN ESS.

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.…