Schmidt, Sebastiano (trans.) Emanuel Swedenborg (annotated) ; Rudolph Leonard Tafel (ed.)

Biblia Sacra Sive Testamentum Vetus Et Novum : Ex Linguis Originalibus In Linguam Latinam Translatum [1872 with Swedenborg facsimile annotations. From the library of Isaiah Tansley]

Holmiae (Stockholm): Ex Officina Societatis Photo-Lithographicae, 1872. 1st ed thus, text in Latin, quarto, pp.892, cloth boards, spine restored, old on new, with original gilt letterring and rule to upper spine and new gilt ruling to lower spine, facsimile title page of 1696. Previous owner's bookplate fep. Ownership signature on ffep and upper title page of Isaiah Tansley. (Hyde 504). Very good condition. Rare

1872 facsimile edition of Schmidt's 1696 translation into Latin of the Bible, with the (facsimile) manuscript annotations of Emanuel Swedenborg in the margins and the Praefatiuncula Editoris (London, 1872). Sebastian Schmidt (1617-1696) was a Lutheran theologian: he spent forty years working on a complete translation. In his preface (in Latin), the editor draws attention to the importance of the annotations by Swedenborg in this copy. Later bookplate (1907) of Claude Toby. Originally from the library of author and translator of several of Swedenborg's works with his signature, Isaiah Tansley.

, Item #101732

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