Complete, bound in seventeen volumes

Estimate: $7,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $8,000

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

author

(BIBLE. Hebrew)

printer

Robert Estienne the Elder

Place

Paris

Publication

1543-46

Description

Printer’s device on all titles, with Nikud (vowel-points), initial words within engraved cartouche

references

Darlow & Moule (noted only, not listed) below no.5089; Adams B-1224; Vinograd, Paris 18

summary

Splendidly printed pocket Renaissance Hebrew Bible. “Very rare and seldom found complete...a typographical jewel.” F. Schreiber, The Estiennes (1982) no.82

Ruled in red. Uniform 18th-century gilt-ruled rust mottled calf boads, dutch marbled end-papers, one volume with modern binding to match. Spine in compartments tooled with gilt lettering, top and tail of spine expertly repaired on few volumes, a.e.g. Housed in an attractive modern blind-tooled brown calf slip-box. 16mo

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