Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 175

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Map of Eretz Israel on fascicle 38, 4 (Parshath Masei). Plus diagrams depicting the size of the altar in Parshath Teruma and Tzav. ff. 335 (of 340). Title-page and following leaf provided in facsimile, lacking first leaf of fascicle 3, final blank and blank leaf between Bamidbar and Devarim (as in the Mehlman copy). Some staining, slight soiling, censored in places, one leaf bound out of order in fascicle 30, two small worm holes on final leaf repaired affecting some letters. Modern gilt-tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, 114; Mehlman 668; Haberman, Bomberg. no. 103a.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1527

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

<<RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE MIZRACHI. CONTAINS THE FIRST HEBREW PRINTED MAP OF THE HOLY LAND.>> First appearance of Elijah Mizrachi’s map of Eretz Israel. Simply drawn, it notes the borders and the places recorded in Deuteronomy. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp. 19-21.