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Bidding Information
Lot #    15731
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 1:05:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Das batanaische Hiebelgebirge
Author    [Only Ed.] Johann Gottfried Wetzstein
City    Leipzig
Publisher    Dorssling
Publication Date    1884
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 27, [1] pp. plus wrappers, 218:140 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title wrapprs.
          
Detailed
Description		    Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905), Orientalist who propounded (1873) a “literal” interpretation of the Song of Solomon, which, despite its presence in the Old Testament, he read as an anthology of love songs having no religious or allegorical significance.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica