[OLD TESTAMENT] In librum I. Jobi commentarius,

in quo, cum optimis quibusque commentatoribus, tum Hebraeis tum Christianis, cohaerentia & vocabula diligenter expenduntur, & sensus studiose eruitur … … Argentorati [i.e. Strasbourg] : sumptibus Johannis Reinhold Dulsseckeri, 1705. Editio secunda. Two works in one volume, thick quarto (205 x 170 x 130 mm), contemporary full vellum (heavily rubbed, spine with faint manuscript lettering, head of spine with expert repair); engraved frontispiece portrait of Sebastian Schmidt, additional engraved pictorial title leaf, main title leaf in red and black and with vignette printer’s device, pp. [18 Dedication], 1-868; separate title leaf for Tomus Secundus, 869-1576, [18 Indexes]; [BOUND WITH] Commentarius super illustres prophetias Jesaiae, in quo singula capita resolvuntur et annotationibus ad singulos versus illustrantur, una cum annotationibus in IIX. priora capita Libri Josuae. Opera & studio Sebastiani Schmidt … … Hamburg : sumptibus Gothofredi Liebernickels, typis Nicolai Spieringi, 1702. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Sebastian Schmidt, main title leaf in red and black and with vignette printer’s device, pp. [12], 1-618 (Isaiah), [619]-976 (Joshua), [1 rear blank with old annotations]; both works in Latin with some Hebrew; binding firm, first work with pale water staining to fore-edge margins of the first twenty or so leaves, frequent browning, otherwise very presentable throughout.

Two works containing commentaries on the Books of Job, Isaiah and Joshua by Christian and Jewish writers, edited and evaluated by Sebastian Schmidt (1617–96), professor of theology at Strasbourg. Schmidt was the foremost Lutheran exegete of the period and an outstanding scholar of the Hebrew language, which he had studied at Basel. He was the author of a number of voluminous commentaries on both the Old and New Testaments, but his principal achievement was his complete translation of the Bible into Latin (Biblia Sacra sive Testamentum Vetus et Novum. Strasbourg, 1696).