Hebrew. Writings). Book of Job.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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Lot 53

(BIBLE.

Hebrew. Writings). Book of Job.

With commentary of Gersonides. Text in square script with Nikud. Commentary in rabbinic script without Nikud. Initial words of Job within white-vine woodcut border. ff. (45, of 48) leaves 26, 27 and 48 supplied in facsimile. Expert paper repairs throughout, soiled in places, Modern boards. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Naples 2; Goff Heb-26; Goldstein 51; Mehlman 24; Offenberg 46; Thes. A-59; Wineman Cat. 33.

Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser 1487

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

<<FIRST EDITION OF KETHUVIM IN HEBREW.>> Book of Job only, forming the first part in the final volume of the Bible (Hagiographa). The third production of the first Hebrew press in Naples.