Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With vocalization and cantillation points. With commentaries Totze’oth Chaim by Chaim Boskowitz

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

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 186

(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & FIVE SCROLLS).

Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With vocalization and cantillation points. With commentaries Totze’oth Chaim by Chaim Boskowitz

Five Parts in Five volumes. Each with title page printed in red and black. A Fine Large-Paper Copy Vol. I: ff.(3),94,(7). Vol. II: ff.125. Vol. III: ff.74. Vol. IV: ff. 16 (i.e.78). Vol. V: ff.42 (i.e.105). Lightly browned, stained in a few places. Uniform contemporary vellum boards, each volume housed in original slip-case with scalloped thumb-space. Folio Vinograd, Vienna 55; not in Darlow &Moule

Vienna: Anton Schmid 1794

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

A Particularly Handsome, Wide-Margined Set. Boskowitz’s commentary takes the form of a homiletical commentary to the Pentateuch, with an exposition on the moral values to be learned from each verse