Biblia Hebraica

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $3,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIBLE, Hebrew)

printer

Menasseh ben Israel for Henricus Laurentius

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1635-36

Description

Latin and Hebrew title pages, three divisional titles. 3pp. index of pericopes

references

cf. Darlow & Moule 5124 and Silva Rosa 24

summary

Provenance: The Estate of an Elder of the Church of Sweden, Gothenburg. A handsome copy. Title page with signature of a scholar at Uppsala, 1659. The second, and most important edition of the Bible prepared by Menasseh ben Israel. The present copy does not seem to accord with any of the three variants established by Fuks(no.153)

Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin with historiated rolls, extremeties lightly scuffed, verses noted in Roman numerals in a contemporary hand, thick 4to

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