Lightfoote John (3 results)

First edition hardback in a vellum leather binding; it has [16] + 108 + 206 + [10] + 136 + [2] pages and is Wing L2056 complete.The book is soundly bound in later (recent?) full vellum; the boards are slightly warped, the binding is bright. The firs t 8 leaves have archival tissue supports, there are some losses in the upper margins and a stain. There are further archival repairs in places in the rest of the text and some staining in places.

Modern Half Calf. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. A short tract of twenty pages, securely bound.

Two volumes bound in one first edition hard back binding in old full leather covers showing old thongs to the internal gutters. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¾''. Contains [viii including 'contents'] 200; [xvi including 'To the Reader', Contents, Errata] 286 printed pages of English text with some Hebrew. Elaborately designed capital letters and headers to the beginning of each book, smaller designs to each chapter capital letter. Armorial bookplate of Patrick Straton inside the front cover. Front free end paper with small loss of paper to the bottom corner, slight age toning to the text block edges. Lightfoot was a prolific writer and is noteworthy as the first Christian scholar to call attention to the importance of the Talmud. Lowndes V:1359. His chief works are as follows: A Few and New Observations on the Book of Genesis (London, 1642); A Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus (1643); Harmony of the Four Evangelists among themselves and with the Old Testament (3 vols., 1644-50); Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament (1647); The Temple Service as it stood in the Days of our Saviour (1649); The Temple, especially as it stood in the Days of our Saviour (1650); Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament (1655); and the work which has done most to preserve his fame, Horæ Hebraicæ et Talmudicæ [From the Talmud and Hebraica] (6 vols., Cambridge and London, 1658-1678). Member of the P.B.F.A. THEOLOGY & RELIGION.