Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS & HAPHTAROTH). With Targum Onkelos, commentaries of Rashi, Jacob ben Asher and Sifthei Chachamim by Shabbetai Bass

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS & HAPHTAROTH). With Targum Onkelos, commentaries of Rashi, Jacob ben Asher and Sifthei Chachamim by Shabbetai Bass

Previous owners’ signatures and lists of family members ff. [2] ,342, 30,14, [349-351],[5], 17-24. Elaborately tooled pigskin. Thick 4to

Frankfurt o/Oder: M. Gottschalk 1728

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

RARE. THIS EDITION UNKNOWN TO VINOGRAD AND ALL OTHER STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHERS. The Siphthei Chachamim, the standard anthologized supercommentary on RaSHI, was chosen to appear in most editions of Mikra’oth Gedoloth. Thus, for centuries, the minds of Jewish schoolchildren have been honed by Bass’s incisive questions and answers