Ha’yichush Lichtav Ashuri [history of the Hebrew script]

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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BACHARACH, JACOB BEN MOSES

Ha’yichush Lichtav Ashuri [history of the Hebrew script]

FIRST EDITION pp. (24),126, (2). Few light stains in places. Later marbled boards, rubbed, lacking spine, original printed yellow-paper wrappers bound in. 8vo Vinograd, Warsaw 529

Warsaw: Joel Levenson 1854

Est: $120 - $180

PRICE REALIZED $200

Contains important, lengthy corresspondence between the author and R. Tzvi Hirsch Chayot and the Shada”l concerning the antiquity of the nekudoth and accents of Hebrew