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PHILO JUDAEUS. [Greek] Opera exegitica in libros Mosis, de mundi opisicio, historicos & legales. Geneva, 1613. Contemporary red morocco gilt, bound for NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC (1580-1637, with his supra libros on each cover, his device on title-page and his price inscription on verso), spine gilt in seven compartments, gilt-lettered in two and dated, edges with diagonal bars of sprinkled red; probably bound by the Peiresc house binder Simon Corberan; later supra libros of the Signet Library, binding worn. Edited by David Hoeschel, text in Greek and Latin, double column -- SCHINDLER, VALENTIN. Lexicon pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, & Arabicum. Hannover, 1612. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, new spine labels, some staining to covers, corners worn -- MERCER, JOANNES. [Hebrew] Thesaurus linguae sanctae. Geneva, 1614. New half calf, title with inner margin repaired and cut close, last leaf slightly defective, old staining at front and back -- BUXTORF, JOHANNES. Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum et Rabbinicum. Basle, 1639 (with Buxtorf's Tiberias sive commentarious Masorethicus triplex, Basle, 1665). Modern dark blue quarter morocco, portrait lined at fore-margin, a few cuts from a knife and pinking shears in last two leaves of index and in first leaves of Tiberias, one leaf cropped. Steinschneider, Handbuch, no. 329, p. 29 -- SPENCER, JOHN. De legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus earumque rationibus libra quatuor. Tubingen, 1732. Contemporary vellum. Bookplates of Gottlieb Risold and of St. Charles's, Bayswater, with ink stamp of the latter on several leaves. All folio. (5)