Biblia en Lengua Espanola. Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca.

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 33

(BIBLE. Spanish)

Biblia en Lengua Espanola. Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca.

Title within elaborate historiated border by Cornelis Muller. fff.(10),pp.605(i.e.603),(1). Lightly browned, stains on title page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked. Folio Darlow & Moule 8480; Kayserling 29

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel for Gillis Joost, 5606 (sic, i.e. 5406) - 1646

Est: $5,000 - $6,000

A revision of the famed Ferrara Bible issued by Abraham Usque and here ascribed to Menasseh ben Israel. Published for the Spanish speaking Jews driven from Spain and Portugal, to facilitate their return to Judaism.