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Auction 12 · Lot 66

Hebrew). Four parts in two volumes. Divisional titles all within ornate woodcut architectural form border-piece. Opening words within ornamental borders. With vocalization points (nikud)

Estimate
$6,000–$8,000
Hammer price
$7,000

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author

(BIBLE.

printer

Johannes and Friedrich Hartmann

Place

Frankfurt on der Oder

Publication

1595

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 2; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) p.710; Adams B- 1237

summary

AN ATTRACTIVE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY of a Scare Hebrew Bible. Both the JNUL and the Cambridge University Librarys’ copies are incomplete.
I:ff. 499 (of 500), lacking final blank. Marginal repairs on title. II:ff.(496). Few marginal notations in Latin. Collates as per Adams. Lightly browned. Uniform modern blind-tooled deep-brown calf. 8 vo.
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