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Auction 4 · Lot 214

(BIBLE, Spanish. PSALMS). Psalterio de David en Hebrayco dicho Thehylim. Translated by David de Jacob Valensino

Estimate
$6,000–$8,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(SEPHARDIC LITERATURE)

printer

G.V. Bonfigli

Place

Livorno

Publication

1655

Description

Printer’s device on title. each page within printed ruled border

summary

Remarkably scarce, unknown to Kayserling. See C. Roth, Notes sur les Marranes de Livourne, in: Revue des Etudes Juives (1931) pp.1-27 (esp. p.19). The second Jewish publication printed for the Marrano Community of Livorno. The printer produced a Spanish Hagadah a year earlier in 1654 (see lot 166)
ff. (4),396,(14). Title stained, trimmed. Recent calf. 16mo
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