František Zelený (1721-1766)

Various authors

THREE HEBREW BOOKS

1756, 1817, 2nd half of the 19th - 1st third of the 20th century
FRANCISCI ZELENY E SOCIETATE JESU IN UNIVERSITATE PRAGENSI S. LINGUAE PROFESSORIS REG. PUBL. AC ORDIN. ET IN THEOLOGICIS EXAMINATORIS REGII INSTITUTIONES LINGUAE SANCTAE AUDITORUM SUORUM COMMODO, UTILITATIQUE DATAE ANNO MDCCLVI. PRAGAE, LITTERIS FRANCISCI IGNATII KIRCHNER, REGII TYPOGRAPHI. Format 8°, 18x10.7 cm. 199 numbered pp., in Latin and Hebrew. Title page with a decorative vignette printed in black, bearing the owner`s signature "Anton Fischer.". Complete including all 6 folding plates (tables of Hebrew grammar overviews, conjugation and the alphabet). Solid full-leather binding, spine with 4 raised bands. A textbook, fundamentals of Hebrew for theology students. Printed by František Ignác Kirchner in Prague in 1756. Machzor (Jewish festival prayer book), vol. II. Format 8°, 18.5x11.5 cm. In Hebrew. Title page printed in black. Solid full-leather binding, spine with 2 raised bands and blind-tooled decoration. Printed by Anton Schmid, k. k. priv. Buchdrucker, in Vienna in 1817. Gebetbuch für Israeliten. Mit sorgfältig durchgesehenem Texte übersetzt von Dr. M. Sachs. Neueste Ausgabe. Format 12°, 15.5x10 cm. 359 numbered pp., in Hebrew and German. Title page printed in black. Solid full-cloth binding with blind-tooled decoration with remnants of gilding, including gilt edges. Published by Josef Schlesingers Buchhandlung in Vienna and Budapest, undated. The books are slightly worn from use, the leather bindings bear traces of woodworm.