Tafsir Ruth [Biblical Book of Ruth as read on the Festival of Shavuoth].

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 88
(UZBEKISTAN).

Tafsir Ruth [Biblical Book of Ruth as read on the Festival of Shavuoth].

Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Tajik. Prepared by Rahamim David Bajouf and Azaria Yosofouf. pp. 18. Some staining, closely shaved affecting few letters. Contemporary colored wrappers. 12mo. Bibliographically unlisted.

Kokand: Rahamim David Bajouf 1915

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
Issued for the Bukharian Community. Possibly the first Hebrew publication in Kokand, a town in Eastern Uzbekistan some 200 miles south of the capital city of Tashkent. Rosenfeld’s Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing only lists a later (1916) publication.