RENAISSANCE - HEBREW - BOOKBINDING Elie Levita, Sefer HaDikduk ספר הדקדוק. Grammatica hebraea Eliae Levitae Germani, per Sebastianum Munsterum versa & iam ultima manu scholiis illustrata. Index copiosus iam recens adiectus. Item Institutio elementalis in eamdem linguam ex Eliae variis libellis concinnata, etc... Basel, Froben, 1537, 104 pp. n.c., 306 pp.c. and 14 pp. n.c. in one vol. in 8° full brown calf, central macaron and double framing of cold fillets on the boards, spine with mute nerves (binding restored). A very fine, wide-margined copy of this superb Basel printing (Prijs 49). Handwritten bookplate "Carolus de Froidmont". Followed by: Nicolas Clénard, Louah hadikduk לוח הדקדוק (hebr.), Tabula in Grammaticen hebraeam, Louvain, Martin, 1530, 128 pp. including title, beautiful printer's mark, captioned in Hebrew, on verso of last leaf. Reunion of two rare works, both devoted to Hebrew grammar, in an exceptional state of preservation and in a particularly elegant 16th-century binding. Elie Levita (1469-1549) was not only a great Hebraist, but also one of the first great writers in the Yiddish language, in which he published a famous dictionary and novel. He was a proofreader for Daniel Bomberg in Venice. Nicolas Clénard (1493-1542) was not only one of the great Hebraists of the first half of the 16th century, but also one of the first Arabists, taking advantage of his connections in Spain to spend a long time in Fez.