PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim.

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

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Lot 31

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim.

With commentary by David Kimche. Despite few defects - A Fine Copy. ff.212 (of 218), opening 6 leaves supplied in manuscript. Mispaginated. Censored in places, minimally stained. Modern calf in slip-case. Sm. folio Vinograd, Salonika 30; Mehlman 69; not in Adams

Salonika: Don Judah Gedaliah 1522

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

The printer, Judah Gedaliah. was foreman at Eliezer Toledano’s press in Lisbon. After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal (1497) he settled in Salonika and became the town’s prototypographer in 1515.