Hebrew. LATER PROPHETS)

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 45

(BIBLE

Hebrew. LATER PROPHETS)

FIRST EDITION with commentary by David Kimchi. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Latter Prophets. THE ZAGAYSKI COPY, with his book-plate on front paste-down ff. 190 (of 294), lacking ff. 171-5, 179, 181-2, 191-294. Most leaves silked, stained in places, scattered marginal worming in places. Recent quarter morocco over wooden boards, corner bosses, clasps and hinges, one lacking. Sm. folio Vinograd, Soncino 13; Offenberg 29; Goff Heb-24; Freimann-Marx, Thesaurus A-39

Soncino: Joshua Solomon Soncino 1486

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

Printed just before the Soncino Family’s flight to Casal Maggiore, the present Later Prophets with the commentary of David Kimchi (RaDa”K) , completed the House of Soncino’s first Biblical text. Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Important Hebrew Books, Incunabula & Illuminated and Other Manuscripts from the Collection of the Late Michael Zagayski, Part Two, New York, 12th and 13th May 1970, Lot 3