Complete in two volumes. With Nikud (vowel-points). Divisional titles. Printer’s device on all titles

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 172

(BIBLE. Hebrew).

Complete in two volumes. With Nikud (vowel-points). Divisional titles. Printer’s device on all titles

Minor Prophets with commentary by David Kimchi (RaDa”K). Good wide-margined (mixed) set. First vol. annotated in an early hand Vol I: pp.579;501. Vol. II: pp.124;163;139;76;(2),20;44;8;14;(2),32;15,(1);19,(1);16;12;59,(1);18;151,(1);53,(1);59,(1);79,(1);47,(1);71,(1);180,(2). Lightly browned, stained in places, a.e.g. Modern uniform crimson half-morocco backed boards. Large 4to Darlow & Moule 5089; Adams B-1221; Vinograd, Paris 16

Paris: Robert Estienne the Elder 1539-44

Est: $6,000 - $7,000

“Robert Estienne [was] the most outstanding figure in the Renaissance booktrade in France. As a printer...he occupies today a chief place in the history of typography, and it is to him primarily that the Estienne dynasty owes its reputation in this field.” F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, An Annotated Catalogue (1982) p.45. In June 1539, Robert Estienne was appointed Royal Printer and Bookseller in Hebrew and Latin. He immediately commissioned Jehan Arnoul to cut a new Hebrew type in preparation for the printing of this famous quarto Hebrew Bible, an edition renowned for it’s typographic artistry