Sepher HaRoke’ach [ethics, rabbinic law and customs]

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 71
ELEAZAR BEN JUDAH OF WORMS

Sepher HaRoke’ach [ethics, rabbinic law and customs]

<<DELUXE, WIDE MARGINED COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> Signatures on title including Dovid ben Shimshon Katz. ff. (4), 91, (1). Foxed, some wear, upper margins repaired, some worming, few leaves laid to size, title laid down. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio.

Cremona:

Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,500
<<RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> According to Benayahu (HaDefus Ha’ivi BeCremona p. 192) only the Bodleian and Schocken copies exist on blue paper. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 10.