Bibliotheca Hebraea, by Johann Christoph Wolf. Hamburg and Leipzig: Christian Liebezeit (Part I), Theodor Christoph Felginer (Parts II-IV), 1715-1733. Four parts in three volumes. Latin with some Hebrew.

Comprehensive study of Hebrew literature. Parts I and III discuss rabbis and Jewish authors, including a list of names (Hebrew and Latin). Parts II and IV discuss the Bible, Talmud and kabbalah.

Johann Christoph Wolf (1683-1739), Hebraist and bibliophile of German origin. In 1712, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature at the University of Hamburg. He dedicated his time to the study of Hebrew literature, particularly the Oppenheim collection, culminating in the present four-volume Bibliotheca Hebraea.

Includes three frontispieces at beginning of first, second and fourth parts (identical illustration on Parts I and IV, with portrait of author; in Part II there appears an engraving of the library).

Four parts in three volumes. Volume I (Parts I-II): [1] frontispiece, [3] leaves; 40, 1161, [35], 24 pages. [1] frontispiece, [5] leaves, 1484 pages. Volume II (Part III): [4] leaves, 1226, [60] pages. Volume III (Part IV): [1] frontispiece, [6] leaves, 1226, [72] pages. 20-20.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Worming to some leaves of first volume, slightly affecting text. Volume I in early binding, worn, and other two volumes in early leather bindings, with defects.

At end of second volume are bound two more works (with many varying foliations):

• Beurei HaMikra, Notae selectae, criticae, philologicae, exegeticae – a philological exegetical work on the Old and New Testaments, by Heinrich Benedikt Starke, Leipzig: I.F. Braunii, 1710-1723. Latin. Five parts, with divisional title pages (main title page in black and red).

• Tractatus talmudici Avoda sara, sive De idololatria, caput primum, e Gemara Babylonica latine redditum, chapters 1-2 of Tractate Avodah Zarah from the Babylonian Talmud, with extensive commentary and notes in Latin, by Georg Eliezer Edzardo. Hamburg: Spieringianis, 1705. Hebrew and Latin. Only the first part, on chapter 1, without Part II on chapter 2, printed in 1710.