Esrim Ve’arbah.

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew).

printer

Menasseh ben Israel for J. Jansson

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1637-39

Description

Printed in double-columns. With vocalization points (nikud). Title within architectural arch. Three parts.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 45; Fuks, Amsterdam 167 (as this copy with Latin imprint); Darlow & Moule 5127; Silva Rosa 28.

summary

The third Menasseh ben Israel Bible. This copy contains the rare blank after f. 166 which according to Fuks was “later cut out”. These double columned Menasseh ben Israel Bible editions were apparently utilized by the Vilna Gaon for his mystical Goral HaGr”a.

ff. 112, 166, (1), 94, pp. (7). Some staining, edge of title repaired with part of upper left corner decoration supplied in facsimile, final pages of Haphtoroth contain marginalia in a Latin hand. Modern gilt tooled calf. 8vo.

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