Eynei Avraham [index of commentaries on the Bible]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $450

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

author

FONSECA, ABRAHAM DE

printer

Daniel de Fonseca

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1627

Description

FIRST EDITION. Five parts in one. Title within decorative woodcut border. Four divisional titles

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 16; Fuks, Amsterdam 194

summary

De Fonseca's Hebrew press at Amsterdam was operative for only one year, during which time he printed only two Hebrew books. It remains unclear why de Fonseca engaged in Hebrew printing, particularly in light of his colleague, Menasseh ben Israel’s, pioneering and far more successful enterprise. See L. Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 1585-1815, Part I (1984) pp.135-9

ff. 151 (of 153), (4). Lacking ff.138-9. Dampstained on last few leaves, marginal paper repairs to title and few other leaves, clean tear on f. 91 repaired, paper repair to final leaf affecting text, trace marginal worming on a few leaves. Later blind-tooled chestnut mottled morocco, gently rubbed at edges, rebacked. 8vo

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