Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points (nikud)

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With vocalization points (nikud)

Opening title within foliate architectural-form border. Divisional titles, each within historiated borders. Opening words within ornate decorative panels ff.506, pp.(3). Previous owner’s signatures on title. Touch foxed, few minute worm-holes, some light marginal dampstaining. Modern calf, slightly rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Antwerp 7; Darlow & Moule 5100; not in Adams

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1566

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles "share a characteristic elegance”. Plantin re-arranged the type-composition of this Bible, and issued the same year, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo editions. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100. See also D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no.170