‎MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID.‎
‎Spicilegium Geographiae Hebraeorum Exterea Post Bochartum. 2 vols. ‎

‎Gottingen, Vandenhoeck, 1769-1780. 4to. Bound in two uneven half calf bindings. Bindings with wear. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front boards and previous owner's names to front free end-papers. Title-page in vol. 1 with repair in lower outer corner, not affecting text. Brownspotted throughout. XVI, 308 pp. (2), 218 pp. ‎

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‎First edition of this important work which became highly influential in seventeenth-century Biblical exegesi. Johann Davis Michaelis (1717-19) was a theologian and orientalist, whose fame today rests upon the present work and upon the fact that he was responsible for the first scientific expedition to Arabia Felix, namely that of Niebuhr.‎