Samuelis Bocharti Geographia sacra
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Samuelis Bocharti Geographia sacra, seu Phaleg et Canaan: cui accedunt variae dissertationes philologicae, geographicae, theologicae, etc. Antehac ineditiae: ut et tabulae geographicae et indices, longe quam antea luculentiores et locupletiores
Samuel Bochart; Pierre de ed Villemandy
Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn et Jordanum Luchtmans ; Trajecti ad Rhenum : Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1707.
Folio, 39 cm. 4th ed. Bound in full contemporary vellum. Title in red and black with engraving showing tower of Babel. 1312 p. Pages generally clean, contemporary marginalia. Cover has wear, chip missing from bottom of spine, crack at seam along outer edges. Binding solid.
Bochart was a noted French biblical scholar and Christian humanist. His most important contribution was to bring non-European source material into the Latin world.