Eynei Avraham [index of Midrashic commentaries on the Bible]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $800

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

author

FONSECA, ABRAHAM DE.

printer

Daniel de Fonseca

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1627-28

Description

FIRST EDITION. Five parts in one. Title within decorative woodcut border. Four divisional titles. Final four leaves with subject-index.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 16; Fuks, Amsterdam 194.

summary

De Fonseca’s Hebrew press at Amsterdam was operative for only one year, during which time he printed just two Hebrew books. It remains unclear why de Fonseca engaged in Hebrew printing at all, particularly in light of his colleague, Menasseh ben Israel’s far more successful enterprise. See L. Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 1585-1815, Part I (1984) pp. 135-9.

ff. 153, (4). Lghtly browned. Contemporary vellum, worn. Sm. 4to.

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