Chiluka de-Rabbanan. With commentaries: Shnei Luhoth ha-Berith by Isaiah Halevi Horowitz; Mateh Aharon by Aaron Te’omim Darshan; and Kethoneth Pasim by Joseph ben Moses Hadarshan of Przemysl

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$3,250

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

author

(HAGADAH)

printer

David Tartas

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1695

Description

Elaborate woodcut title. Printed on blue paper. Marginal note on 35b

references

Yudlov 92; Yaari 60

summary

A biblophilic edition printed on deep blue paper. The practice of printing on blue paper was begun by the famed Christian publisher of Jewish texts, Daniel Bomberg. In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, on the other hand, blue paper was an exigency resorted to by poverty-stricken printers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See Brad Sabin Hill, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana-Treasures of Jewish Booklore (1994) pp. 56-59. Also, Wisso Weiss, “Blaues Papier für Druckzwecke in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1959), pp. 26-35

ff. 7, 1, 3-45. Final leaf 52 mispaginated and should read “45.” Modern boards. 4to.

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