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Auction 60 · Lot 65

Esrim Ve’arbah - Sacra Biblia Hebraea.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(BINDING).

printer

J.G. Nisselius

Place

Leiden

Publication

1662

Description

Edited by Nisselius and Uchtmann. Two title pages: Latin letterpress and engraved Hebrew. Printed with Nikud in two columns. Binding with Delightful Fore edge Painting of the bridge of Egnippo (Negropont), Greece, after the engraving by Finden (1833).

references

Darlow & Moule 5133; Fuks, Leiden 54.

summary

Hebrew Books with Painted Fore Edges are Most Uncommon.
ff. (5), 328, 104. Lightly foxed. 18th-century straight-grain morocco, gilt. Scuffed. Sm. 4to.
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