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Auction 11 · Lot 119
ROPHÈ, JUDAH LEIB BEN JOSEPH
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $1,600
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
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Description
Kol Yehudah [Sermons on the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 72. Complete, though f.2 misbound. Paper repair to title. [Vinograd, Prague 352]. Prague, Sons of Abraham Hida, 1641. * JUDAH BEN ADRAHAM JACOB. Macabee Yehudah [Commentary on the order of the Torah portions]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 2-31. Seldom complete, JNUL copy similarly lacking.[Vinograd, Cracow 448; Mehlman 890]. Cracow, Menachem Nachum Meisels, 1646. * TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ. Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti [Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 27. Lacking ten introductory leaves. [Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Melmann 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams]. Hedderenheim, Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners, 1546
summary
Last mentioned, first of only two Hebrew books printed in this town near Frankfurt a/Main. The printer Schachor began his career at the Kohen printing establishment in Prague, where he produced almost all the woodcut illustrations for the famous Prague Hagadah of 1526. See A.M. Habermann, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500
Browned and stained, trimmed. Contemporary cal, upper cover detached, rubbed. Sm. folio
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