Chiluka de-Rabbanan. With commentaries: Shnei Luhoth ha-Berith by Isaiah Halevi Horowitz; Mateh Aharon by Aaron Te’omim Darshan; and Kethoneth Pasim by Joseph ben Moses Hadarshan of Przemysl

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Lot 84

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Chiluka de-Rabbanan. With commentaries: Shnei Luhoth ha-Berith by Isaiah Halevi Horowitz; Mateh Aharon by Aaron Te’omim Darshan; and Kethoneth Pasim by Joseph ben Moses Hadarshan of Przemysl

Elaborate woodcut title. Printed on blue paper. Marginal note on 35b ff. 7, 1, 3-45. Final leaf 52 mispaginated and should read “45.” Modern boards. 4to. Yudlov 92; Yaari 60

Amsterdam: David Tartas 1695

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

A biblophilic edition printed on deep blue paper. The practice of printing on blue paper was begun by the famed Christian publisher of Jewish texts, Daniel Bomberg. In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, on the other hand, blue paper was an exigency resorted to by poverty-stricken printers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See Brad Sabin Hill, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana-Treasures of Jewish Booklore (1994) pp. 56-59. Also, Wisso Weiss, “Blaues Papier für Druckzwecke in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1959), pp. 26-35