(Rada”k). Sepher ha-Shorashim [“Book of Roots”: Biblical Lexicon]

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Lot 39

KIMCHI, DAVID BEN JOSEPH.

(Rada”k). Sepher ha-Shorashim [“Book of Roots”: Biblical Lexicon]

Second Edition. Text in square Hebrew typeface, Biblical references in sidebars in Rashi script ff. (143). Opening and closing leaves laid to size, dampstained, few marginal repairs, trace wormed in places. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Naples 12; Goff 39; Goldstein 72; Offenberg 105; Steinschneider, p. 873, no. 4821, 43; Thes. A66; Wineman Cat. 39

Naples: Azriel ben Joseph Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser 1490

Est: $40,000 - $50,000

PRICE REALIZED $45,000

<<COMPLETE COPY OF THE Sepher ha-Shorashim >> David Kimchi built on the lexicographical work of his predecessor R. Jonah ibn Janach, et al, producing by far, the most popular work of this genre. The Wineman Collection contains the first three editions of the Sepher ha-Shorashim (see also Lots 1 and 43).