Mill Millii (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 478, [2] p. Bound in contemporary leather. Good binding. Moderate shelfwear. Front board detached. Rear board starting. Pages tanned and toned. Foxing to later half of book. Dampstain to title page and first 25 pages. Ships daily.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather. 4to. Adrianum Wor, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) , 1754. 438 pgs, xcviii. Missing the engravings. Text in Latin, with some Hebrew and Greek. Bound in 1/2 leather and paper covered cloth boards. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities with chipping and wear present. Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Piece missing from the tite page where it looks like someone razored out the ornament present there. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An excellent exegetical commentary on the Old Testament Book of Isaiah by David Mill (1692-1756) , the renowned German philologist and Reformed theologian. E-083.

Hardcover. Condition: g. First edition. Quarto. [22], 438, [4], XCVIII, [6]pp. Original blind-stamped vellum with handwritten title on spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering; with separate half-titles for the dissertations. Vignette on title page. Decorative initials. An excellent exegetical commentary on the Old Testament Book of Isaiah by David Mill (1692-1756), the renowned German philologist and Reformed theologian. This work is exquisitely illustrated with a large folding engraved portrait of the author, and five large folding engravings depicting the Tabernacle and other ornaments of the Temple. Moderate age-toning and soiling on binding. Endpapers and fly-leaf foxed. Very minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Text in Latin, with some Hebrew and Greek. Binding in overall good, interior in good to very good condition.

Amstelodami apud Adrianum Wor 1754 Contemporary half-leather binding (gilt title and decorations on spine) marbled boards, [22]+414+ dissertation (pp. 329-438)+[4]+xcvii and [6]pp., 5 fold-out engravings, 17.5x22.5cm., in good antiquarian condition (two old library stamps on title page). The 5 important fold-out engravings on the Ark of Covenant,the Tabernacle and other ornaments of the Temple are present. This work, Miscellanea Sacra by David Mill, is a theological and exegetical commentary on Isaiah chapter 54 and Psalms 121 and 122. It contains two major dissertations: the first addresses the Christian obligation to the Holy Communion, the second analyzes the errors of learned men in depicting Moses? Tabernacle. The text is illustrated with engraved plates and complemented by two added orations. David Mill provides an in-depth commentary on Isaiah chapter 54 and Psalms 121 and 122. The first dissertation examines the duty of Christians to participate in the Holy Communion, thoroughly argued from a theological perspective. The second dissertation critiques the errors of learned men in depicting the Tabernacle of Moses, accompanied by engraved illustrations of the tabernacle. David Mill (1692-1756) was a German/Prussian theologian and philologist, professor of theology at the University of Utrecht. His works focus on biblical exegesis and sacred commentary.

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.