Complete, bound in seventeen volumes

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 173
(BIBLE. Hebrew)

Complete, bound in seventeen volumes

Printer’s device on all titles, with Nikud (vowel-points), initial words within engraved cartouche Ruled in red. Uniform 18th-century gilt-ruled rust mottled calf boads, dutch marbled end-papers, one volume with modern binding to match. Spine in compartments tooled with gilt lettering, top and tail of spine expertly repaired on few volumes, a.e.g. Housed in an attractive modern blind-tooled brown calf slip-box. 16mo Darlow & Moule (noted only, not listed) below no.5089; Adams B-1224; Vinograd, Paris 18

Paris: Robert Estienne the Elder 1543-46

Est: $7,000 - $8,000
PRICE REALIZED $8,000
Splendidly printed pocket Renaissance Hebrew Bible. “Very rare and seldom found complete...a typographical jewel.” F. Schreiber, The Estiennes (1982) no.82