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

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

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TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ.

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

FIRST EDITION. Bound in two volumes ff. 10, 27. Opening leaves remargined, light marginal staining. Later calf. Sm. folio Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Melmann 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams

Hedderenheim: Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners 1546

Est: $6,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

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 Prague, 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