Pirush HaTorah VeChamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Pentateuch and Five Scrolls]

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 193

SOLOMON BEN ISAAC (RASH’I)

Pirush HaTorah VeChamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Pentateuch and Five Scrolls]

Second issue (variant). Opening of each Book decorated with Zodiacal woodcuts. ff. 182 (of 191). Supplied in facsimile: ff. 1, 9, 185-191. Trimmed, browned and stained, wormed with loss of text in places. Modern crushed morocco with gilt dentelles. Sm. 4to.

Augsburg:

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

<<Complete copies of this essential text are almost unknown.>> The Augsburg printer, Chaim (Shachor) Schwarz was among the pioneers of Hebrew printing outside of Italy. He had previously worked in Prague and was responsible for the issue of the famed Prague Hagadah of 1526.