Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti [Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 354

TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ.

Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti [Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts bound in two volumes ff. 9, 27. Opening leaf laid to size, upper corners of final 4 leaves repaired. Second part with marginal repairs, opening leaf supplied in facsimile, modern blind-stamped calf, sm. folio Vinograd, Heddernheim 1; Mehlman 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30

Heddernheim: Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners 1546

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

First of only two Hebrew books printed in this town near Frankfurt a/Main. The printer Schachor began his career at the Kohen printing establishment in Pargue, where he produced almost all the woodcut illustrations for the famous Prague Hagadah of 1526. See A.M. Haberman, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500