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BUXTORF, JOHANNES - (The Elder). Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum.. Additional, elaborately engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece portrait of Buxtorf. ff. (8), 2680 columns, ff. (32). Foxed with some wear. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled vellum over thick wooden boards, clasps lacking, worn. Lg. folio. Prijs, Basle 237. Basle: Ludwig Koenig, 1639. Johannes Buxtorf I (or the Elder, 1564-1629) served as professor of Hebrew at the University of Basle. His colossal Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum served generations of Christian scholars as a guide to their Jewish studies. See EJ IV, col. 1543.