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Four parts in two volumes. Divisional titles all within ornate woodcut architectural form border-piece. Opening words within ornamental borders.

Auction 54 · Lot 74

Four parts in two volumes. Divisional titles all within ornate woodcut architectural form border-piece. Opening words within ornamental borders.

Estimate
$4,000–$6,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(BIBLE, Hebrew).

printer

Johannes and Friedrich Hartmann

Place

Frankfurt on der Oder

Publication

1595

Description

Few marginal notations in Latin.

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt o/Oder 2; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) p. 710; Adams B- 1237.

summary

AN ATTRACTIVE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY of a scarce Hebrew Bible. The JNUL and the Cambridge University Library copies are both incomplete.
Vol. I: ff. 499, text complete - lacking final blank. Title neatly repaired. * Vol. II: ff. 496. Collates as per Adams. Lightly browned. Uniform modern blind-tooled deep-brown calf. Thick 8vo.
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