Auction 61 · Lot 53
Masa’oth shel Rabbi Binyamin - Itinerarium D. Beniaminis. Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns
- Estimate
- $700–$900
- Hammer price
- $700
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
printer
(Bonaventura and Abraham) Elzevier
Place
Leiden
Publication
1633
Description
First Elzevier Edition. Translated into Latin with an introduction and notes by Constantin L’Empereur. A wide-margined copy.
references
Vinograd, Leiden 38; Fuks, Leiden 48; Blackmer 120; Willems 377.
summary
From the library of the French-Jewish Orientalist, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), with his bookplate, dated 1781.
pp. (48), 234, (22). Lightly foxed. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed 12vo.
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