[JUDAICA] Hadriani Relandi ... Antiquitates Sacrae Veterum Hebraeorum. by RELAND, Adriaan [Hadrianus RELANDUS]

Cum in eas tum praesertim in systema rituum sacrorum quale stante templo altero auctoritate pharisaeorum invaluit et II. partibus postremis libri continetur. Notas et animadversiones adiecit Ioh. Eberhardus Rauiu ... ... Herborn : Johann Nikolaus Andreae Witwe, 1743. Thick octavo (170 x 110 mm); contemporary vellum over boards, spine lettered in manuscript (spine expertly reattached, and with old repair at tail); edges stained red; engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black (old repair at bottom corner), pp. [xxv], 1006; decorative headpieces, side notes; text in Latin, with Hebrew, Syriac and Greek; early ownership signature dated 1775 to verso of frontispiece; very clean throughout; a good copy in a contemporary vellum binding. Monumental work by Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist Adriaan Reland (1676-1718) on Hebrew antiquities in the Holy Land. It was first published in Utrecht in 1708, with two later Utrecht editions in 1717 and 1741. The 1743 fourth edition contains a preface and notes by Johann Eberhard Rau.