SLAUGHTER (Edward):

Grammatica Hebraica Auctore Edwardo Slaughter S. I. Item Chaldaica. Auctore Io. Dav. Michaelis.

Romae In Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide. 1834. 8vo, 206 x 126 mms., pp. 154 [155 - 156 errata, 157 colophon, 158 blank], with half-title for second item on page [69], contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt border on covers, spine gilt in compartments, olive morocco label. A very good to fine copy with the Biblioteca Caproni bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper and the library stamp in blind, Bibliogheque de Bernard Aubrenont J B A on the front free end-paper; remains of sealing wax on end-papers The Jesuit and Hebraist Edward Slaughter (1655 - 1729) published his Grammatica Hebraica in 1699, described in ODNB as "his most successful work..., published at Amsterdam by Allard Aaltsz. Amsterdam was one of the centres for Hebrew publications and Aaltsz was one of the few Catholic publishers there. The book is a well-organized practical guide to the basic principles of Hebrew and testimony to its didactic qualities are the many reprints until well into the second half of the nineteenth century." Johann David Michaelis (1717 - 1791) "was a member of a family which had the chief part in maintaining that solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages which distinguished the University of Halle in the period of Pietism. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History" (Wikiepeia). His Chaldaica was first published in 1771. This appears to be a different setting of the same texts published in Rome in 1843 by Typis S. Congregationis De Propaganda Fide, with 166 pages

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Book number: 8718

Catalogue: Hebrew

Keywords: Hebrew grammar prose