Chamishah Chumshei Torah

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $550

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

author

(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH)

printer

Officina Serpentis for the Soncino Gesellschaft

Place

Berlin

Publication

1931-33

Description

ONE OF 850 COPIES printed on Van Gelder paper. Typeface designed by Marcus Behmer. Woodcut decorative title in blue, brown and black. Initial word of each of the Five Books surrounded by arabesques and printed in brown and black, few verses and single words printed in red. Subscriber’s prospectus laid in

summary

“Ranks among the most beautiful Hebrew books ever printed.” A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp.31-34 (illustrated)

Stamp of the “Selff-Help Association of the Former Jewish Concentration Camp, Badgastein. K.Z. Land, Salzburg. Last page of prospectus inscribed, few ff. chipped and lightly stained, few notations, modern half-calf, folio

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