ROPHÈ, JUDAH LEIB BEN JOSEPH

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 119

ROPHÈ, JUDAH LEIB BEN JOSEPH

Kol Yehudah [Sermons on the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 72. Complete, though f.2 misbound. Paper repair to title. [Vinograd, Prague 352]. Prague, Sons of Abraham Hida, 1641. * JUDAH BEN ADRAHAM JACOB. Macabee Yehudah [Commentary on the order of the Torah portions]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 2-31. Seldom complete, JNUL copy similarly lacking.[Vinograd, Cracow 448; Mehlman 890]. Cracow, Menachem Nachum Meisels, 1646. * TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ. Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti [Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 27. Lacking ten introductory leaves. [Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Melmann 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams]. Hedderenheim, Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners, 1546 Browned and stained, trimmed. Contemporary cal, upper cover detached, rubbed. Sm. folio

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Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

Last mentioned, 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. Habermann, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500