[Old Testament Criticism and Exegesis]

Tychsen, M. Olavi Gerhardi. Tentamen de variis codicum Hebraicorum Vet. Test. mss. generibus : a Judaeis et non-Judaeis descriptis: eorum in classes certas distributione et antiquitatis et bonitatis characteribus.

Rostochii: Impensis Io. Christ. Koppii, 1772. 1st edition in a modern binding. Old Testament criticism and analysis by Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734-1815), German Orientalist, scholar of Hebrew, and biblical controversialist. Text is in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.

372 pp. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Bound in recent paper boards in an appropriate style. Paper spine label, new endpapers. Approx. 18 x 11 cm. VG overall. New binding is clean and unworn. Old ink stamp (illegible) and embossed stamp on the title of the Rochester [NY] Theological Seminary. Lacking the fold-out plate, but we have supplied a facsimile on 19th century paper. (See last image.) Text is otherwise complete and unmarked, apart from a couple of early marginal glosses. A nice copy of this scarce work.