Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth.

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 197

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Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth.

Title surrounded by verses. Separate title for Haphtaroth. Petite type for which Steen was celebrated, with nikud. First word in each book within typographic border. ff. 327. Previous owner’s marks, lightly browned and stained. Contemporary calf, worn. With accompanying slipcase (partial). Tall 12mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 602; Fuks, Amsterdam 551; not in Darlow & Moule.

Amsterdam: Casper & Antony Steen 1692-93

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Rare. The first publication by Casper Steen - JNUL copy incomplete. The House of Caspar Steen in Amsterdam was unique in the world of 18th-century printing: Steen was the only non-Jew in this era to print exclusively Hebrew books. See Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Nertherlands 1585-1815 (1987), p. 416.