(Attributed to). Sepher ha-Zohar al ha-Torah [the mystical “Book of Splendor”]

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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

author

SHIMON BAR YOCHAI

printer

Samuel Abraham Shapira

Place

Slavuta

Publication

1824

Description

Four parts in three volumes. Titles printed in red and black. Printed on blue tinted paper. Wide margins. Initial word surrounded by design. Endpieces. Stamps of “Vizhnitzer Bethois Ferein” in Yiddish and Rumanian

references

Vinograd, Slavuta 222

summary

A rare and important edition

I: ff. (4), 252 (f.215 misbound between ff.219-220), 2-17. II: ff. (1), 278. III: ff. 309. Some underlining in blue ink. Stained. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked. Slipcase. 4to

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