Tehillim. ff. (88). Printed without a title-page. [Vinograd, Mantua 134-unseen, with erroneous pagination]. * BOUND WITH: Seder Ma’amadoth [prayers]. ff. 92. [Vinograd, Venice 316]

Estimate: $10,000–$12,000
Hammer price: $15,000

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew. PSALMS)

printer

Venice, Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1547

Place

Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinello, 1571/

Description

Two works bound in one volume

summary

Two remarkably rare 16th-century Venetian Hebrew works bound together. The Psalms is apparantly extant in only only two other copies (one on paper, the other vellum) now in The Hebrew Union College Library, Cincinnati. See H.C. Zafren in Studies in Bibliography and Booklore (1961) Vol. V p. 139 (illustrated)

Closely shaved, stained in places. Recent boards, lacking backstrip. 16mo

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