[Title in Greek:] Tes kaines diathekes hapanta. Novum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum … auctore Johanne Leusden … [with:] Novit Testamenti Compendiolum.
Amsterdam: Ex Officina Westeniana, 1698.
Price: $750.00
About the item
3rd Leusden edition. Additional engraved title-page and 2 folding engraved maps (the Holy Land and the Mediterranean). 337, [1. colophon]; 142, [1] pp. 8vo (signatures alternating in 8s and 10s). 18th-century red morocco, covers with gilt-rolled bordersgilt-tooled and -lettered spine, multi-colored Dutch pastedowns (without free endpapeers). a.e.g. Head of spine starting, otherwise quite attractive. Darlow & Moule 4718a (“Apparently the earlies Greek New Testament to bear the name of the publisher Henricus Wetstenius”); OCLC: 64158458.
Item #255818
D & M doesn’t mention the two fine engraved maps found in this copy; nor the separately printed (COMPENDIOLUM, 1699) with Leusden’s useful concordance of all Greek words found in the New Testament. The Dutch Calvinist philologist Johann Leusden (1624 - 1699), was one of the foremost Biblical experts of his time. His edition of the Greek New Testament first appeared in 1675; this 1698 edition is quite scarce in the US, and very rare with the Compendiolum.
