Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 77

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Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

ONE OF 850 COPIES on Van Gelder hand-laid paper. Woodcut decorative title page in blue, brown and black, initial word of each of the Five Books surrounded by arabesques and printed in brown and black, few lines and words printed in red Stamp and ex-libris on opening blank. Contemporary cloth-backed limp boards. Folio

Berlin: Officina Serpentis for the Soncino Gesellschaft 1931-33

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

“RANKS AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HEBREW BOOKS EVER PRINTED.” The most ambitious undertaking of the Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des juedischen Buches. See A.J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue pp. 31-34 (illustrated); L. Avrin, The Art of the Hebrew Book in the Twentieth Century, in: New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) p.135 (illustrated).