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BROUGHTON, Hugh (1549-1612). Parshegan , in Hebrew (Letter from Abraham ben Reuben of Constantinople and Broughton's reply). Amsterdam: [probably Jodocus Hondius], 1606. Collation: 1-6 4 ; 4 engraved plates, captioned in Hebrew, including one showing the dream of Nebuchadnezzar; folding engraved map showing the settlement of Noah's sons. Square types 1 and 2, cursive type 1, unvocalized. (Title misbound after the third tract in the volume, soiled, and with a small hole affecting two letters; plates slightly cut into, map cropped and repaired.) -- BROUGHTON. Maseket al Hatahborot , in Hebrew (Treatise on the sequence of the Jubilee years). Amsterdam: [probably Jodocus Hondius], 1606. Collation: 1-6 4 . Square types 1 and 2, unvocalized. -- BROUGHTON. Spharush Stayim , in Hebrew (Two letters on missionary matters to English churchmen). Amsterdam: [probably Jodocus Hondius], 1606. 14 leaves. Square types 1 and 2, unvocalized. -- BROUGHTON. Metaphrasis Ponèmatiou Ekdothentos Ebraisti . Greek translation from the Hebrew Parshegan . Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius 1606. Collation: title, A-C 4 . Greek type. (Inner margin of title strengthened.) -- BROUGHTON. Tralatio Epistolae Hebraeae, qua Byzantiaco Iudaeo respondetur de religione . Author's own Latin translation from his Hebrew work, Parshegan . Amsterdam: [probably Jodocus Hondius], 1606. Collation: A-B 4 C 2 . Roman types. (Tear in last leaf.) 5 works in 1 volume, 4° (175 x 135 mm). Modern vellum incorporating old gilt vellum covers. All five editions in this Sammelband ARE OF THE VERY GREATEST RARITY. The first three works belong to a group of at least seven privately published by their author and produced at THE FIRST AMSTERDAM PRESS CAPABLE OF HEBREW PRINTING. Three Dutch bibliographers (Hirschel, Wijnman and Burger) have looked into the identity of the printer (see Het Boek 1928-1929, Amstelodamum 1928). Hirschel argued for Jodocus Hondius and this attribution is supported by Hondius's appearance on the title-page to the Greek edition. The map, which is ususally missing from the first work but present here, is the second earliest Hebrew printed map known. The first edition of Parshegan appeared in English and Hebrew at Basel in 1598, An epistle of an ebrew willinge to learne christianity (STC 3860). Hugh Broughton who had studied Hebrew at Cambridge, spent most of his life in Germany and Holland. His spirit of controversy drove him to defend a peculiar conception of biblical chronology, to attack the existing English Bible translations and to attempt the conversion of Jews to Christianity. L. Fuks and R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 142, 141, 144.