Simonis Johanne Analysis Et Explicatio Lectionum Masorethicarum 1750 Active

Analysis Et Explicatio Lectionum Masorethicarum Kethibhan Et Karjan Vulgo Dictarum Ea Forma Qua Illae In Textu S. Exstant Ordine Alphabetico Digesta... Explicatio Epicreson Masorethicarum Quae Singulis Libris Biblicus Subjivi Ut Et Notarum Marinalium... Dictionarum Veteris Testamentii Hebraeo-Chaldacium ...  Halae [Halle]: Sumbtibus Orphanatrophei, 1740-1760s. 8vo. Three volumes in one. 80, 48, 75p. Modern quarter leather over marbled boards to match period, new endpapers. Leaves with minor toning and some light browning/foxing as usual for period German paper. Minor edge wear to few leaves with no affect overall a very good copy of a scarce book. text in Latin and Hebrew. First two works with no date, circa 1750s-1760s. Third work dated 1741. Scarce. Second edition of first work and third work, stated.  No dates for first and second work but third work dated 1741. Johanne Simonis (1698-1768) German Protestant theologian and Orientalist. In 1718 enrolled at University of Hales became a tutor and devoted his studies to theology and ancient languages. In 1744 he took over the full professorship of church history and antiquities at the University of Halle. His lectures included church history of the Old and New Testaments, Hebrew, Greek and Roman antiquity, Arabic and Samaritan and his oriental language research. Simonis was best known for his Hebrew and Chaldean Lexicon first published in Latin in 1756 and repeatedly printed afterward. [-See German Wiki]. OCLC lists only 7 copies of first work and gives it a circa 1766 date though we find two other copies in the past that state a possible 1750 date.