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First and Only Edition. Very handsomely decorated and illustrated with title in red and black with engraved device and 6 very fine and large engraved folding plates showing the Tabernacle and other decorations and a portrait of the author. With some Hebrew and Greek text. Small 4to, bound in contemporary blind-stamped vellum with manuscript title at the spine. [11], 326, 329-414; [2], 329-402, xcviii, [6], 403-438, [4] pp. A very pleasing and handsome copy with clean, fresh text and fine plates, a very faint and occasional sign of old damp at lower inner margin. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN EXEMPLARY CONDITION. This was the only edition of this scarce melange of theological commentary and philological criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures, along with the author's speculations on the construction of the Israelite tabernacle, the latter accompanied by five large engraved illustrations. Born at Königsberg, Prussia, the noted German Orientalist David Mill (1692-1756) was professor of theology at the University of Utrecht. His inaugural oration, "De fatis theologiae exegetica", was delivered 10 October 1729, and is included in the present collection, along with his "Oratio de erudita pietate" (25 March 1743), a number of commentaries on various psalms and his "Dissertatio de Tabrnaculo Mosis, to which five very large folding engraved plates are added. The volume comprises a tribute to professor Mill on the occasion of twenty-five years of service to the University and concludes with two verse encomia: "De erudita pietate peroranti", by Otto Arntzenius; and an "Elegia ad virum celeberrimum Davidem Millium" by Jacobus de Rhoer. In his later years Mill built a model of the Jerusalem Temple which eventually found its way to the attic of the University Library at Utrecht, from whence it was rescued in the late nineteenth century by Leendert Schouten for his Biblical Museum (Bijbels Museum) in Amsterdam. With a fine engraved portrait of Mill. Walch, Bibliotheca theologica selecta 4: 834. Not in Horne.