Tehillim. ff. (88). Printed without a title-page. [Vinograd, Mantua 134-unseen, with erroneous pagination]. * BOUND WITH: Seder Ma’amadoth [prayers]. ff. 92. [Vinograd, Venice 316]

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 254

(BIBLE, Hebrew. PSALMS)

Tehillim. ff. (88). Printed without a title-page. [Vinograd, Mantua 134-unseen, with erroneous pagination]. * BOUND WITH: Seder Ma’amadoth [prayers]. ff. 92. [Vinograd, Venice 316]

Two works bound in one volume Closely shaved, stained in places. Recent boards, lacking backstrip. 16mo

Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1571/: Venice, Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1547

Est: $10,000 - $12,000

PRICE REALIZED $15,000

Two remarkably rare 16th-century Venetian Hebrew works bound together. The Psalms is apparantly extant in only only two other copies (one on paper, the other vellum) now in The Hebrew Union College Library, Cincinnati. See H.C. Zafren in Studies in Bibliography and Booklore (1961) Vol. V p. 139 (illustrated)