Auction 14 · Lot 90
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis
- Estimate
- $3,000–$5,000
- Hammer price
- $5,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(BIBLE,
printer
for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Zarfati de Gerona and David Gomez
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1726
Description
Six volumes (Five Books of Moses and Book of Haphtaroth). Five volumes with engraved rococo title pages by Bernard Picart with putti supporting an open Torah Scroll and coronet above with vignettes below depicting Biblical episodes from the lives of Samuel, Moses and David. First volume with additional letterpress title in Spanish and Hebrew. Further engraved title prior to Book of Haphtaroth. Hebrew poems dedicated to various notables towards end. Concluding with Solomon de Oliveyra’s Calendario, with three folding tables, Amsterdam, 1726
references
Vinograd, Amsterdam 1292; Kayserling 80-1; not in Darlow & Moule
summary
Another set, individually bound in five handsome contemporary Dutch bindings
ff. (8), 327; (1), 328-446, (5). pp.16. Engraved titles with owner’s name “M. de Pinto” neatly incorporated into the frame. Contemporary uniform Dutch hunter-green morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled with floral border-piece centered on a decorative cartouche, spine in compartments, gilt, red morocco inlaid spine lables titled in gilt Hebrew letters, gilt extra, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. marbled endpapers. 8vo
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