Biur al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $850

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 within decorative woodcut vignettes

references

Vinograd, Riva 4; not in Adams

ff. 286. Title supplied from a slightly shorter copy, some staining, scattered marginalia, also, wherever censored, the censored words are provided on the margin. Signed by censors on recto and verso of final leaf. Later elaborate blind-tooled morocco. 4to

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