Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 66
(BIBLE.
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1580-82
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles “share a characteristic elegance.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no. 170. See also Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100.