Eynei Avraham [index of commentaries on the Bible]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 176

FONSECA, ABRAHAM DE

Eynei Avraham [index of commentaries on the Bible]

FIRST EDITION. Five parts in one. Title within decorative woodcut border. Four divisional titles ff. 151 (of 153), (4). Lacking ff.138-9. Dampstained on last few leaves, marginal paper repairs to title and few other leaves, clean tear on f. 91 repaired, paper repair to final leaf affecting text, trace marginal worming on a few leaves. Later blind-tooled chestnut mottled morocco, gently rubbed at edges, rebacked. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 16; Fuks, Amsterdam 194

Amsterdam: Daniel de Fonseca 1627

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $450

De Fonseca's Hebrew press at Amsterdam was operative for only one year, during which time he printed only two Hebrew books. It remains unclear why de Fonseca engaged in Hebrew printing, particularly in light of his colleague, Menasseh ben Israel’s, pioneering and far more successful enterprise. See L. Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 1585-1815, Part I (1984) pp.135-9