Bi'ur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $750

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

author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER

printer

Jacob Marcaria & Joseph Ottolenghi

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1559

Description

Title letters and incipits within decorative woodcut vignettes. Marginalia on ff. 263r. and 274v restore sensitive passages stricken by Church Censor

references

Vinograd, Riva 4

ff. 286. Small portion of extreme upper margin of title-page removed, final four leaves crudely repaired, stained, trace wormed. Later blind-tooled sheep. 4to

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