Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch]. With Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,000

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

author

(BIBLE,

printer

Casper & Antony Steen

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1692-93

Description

Title surrounded by verses. Separate title for Haphtaroth. Petite type for which Steen was celebrated, with nikud. First word in each book within typographic border.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 602; Fuks, Amsterdam 551; not in Darlow & Moule.

summary

Rare. The first publication by Casper Steen - JNUL copy incomplete. The House of Caspar Steen in Amsterdam was unique in the world of 18th-century printing: Steen was the only non-Jew in this era to print exclusively Hebrew books. See Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Nertherlands 1585-1815 (1987), p. 416.

ff. 327. Previous owner’s marks, lightly browned and stained. Contemporary calf, worn. With accompanying slipcase (partial). Tall 12mo.

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