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Auction 3 · Lot 199

Biur al Hatorah [Kabbalistic homilies to the Pentateuch]

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
$650

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

author

RECANATI, MENACHEM.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. Initial letters of each of the Five Books historiated. The Mayer Sulzberger copy

references

Vinograd, Venice 253; Habermann, Adelkind 16; Mehlman 1114 (lacking title); Adams R-259 (incomplete)
ff. 235, lacking final blank. Signed by censors at end, upper margin of opening leaf repaired. Later vellum, upper cover starting. 4to
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