Samuelis Bocharti Opera Omnia. : Hoc Est Phaleg, Canaan, Et Hierozoicon
Samuelis Bocharti Opera Omnia. : Hoc Est Phaleg, Canaan, Et Hierozoicon
Samuel Bochart; Petrus de Villemandy; Johannes Leusden
Lugduni Batavorum: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Luchtmans, 1692
Folio. 38 cm. Contemporary full vellum binding. Blind stamped. Restored cover. Good binding. Title in red and black. Engraved title of scholars studying tower of Babel. Text in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. 2 text columns. [14] 1311 col. + 60 p. index. Lacks all maps. Bound as one, includes Hierozoicon, sive bipertitum opus de animalibus S. Scripturae.and Geographia sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan.
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. His Hierozoican (included herein) provided a treastise on the animals of the Bible that also contained Arab and other Semitic sources.