Yepheh To’ar [commentary to the Midrash Rabbah, Genesis, with text]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: $625

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author

JAFFE, SAMUEL

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1597-1606

Description

FIRST EDITION. Letters of title within individual historiated cartouches. Printers device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18). On title, stamps of "M. Hager, Sereth" - scion of the Vizhnitz Chassidic dynasty.

references

Vinograd, Venice 835; Habermann, di Gara 169

ff. 540. Wanting last four unnumbered leaves of indices. ff. 199-204 duplicated, few leaves supplied from another copy, some staining. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio

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