Tehillim - Psalterium Hebraeum

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 64

(BIBLE Psalms).

Tehillim - Psalterium Hebraeum

Edited by Menasseh ben Israel. Title within architectural arch. With Nikud. Previous owners inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew. ff. (132). Browned with some wear, small burn-hole affecting small area of margin on one leaf not affecting text. Contemporary calf, worn, backstrip mostly lacking. 16mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 32; Fuks, Amsterdam 160; Silva Rosa 19; not in Darlow & Moule.

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1634

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

<<Most scarce.>> First of the three editions of the Book of Psalms printed by Menasseh ben Israel. This copy with the Latin imprint.