The Rothschild Miscellany

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

(ILLUMINATED FACSIMILE).

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Facsimile Editions

Place

London

Publication

1989

Description

ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile Edition. Sumptuously illuminated plates and text. Together two volumes.

summary

“The most precious of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts.” Produced in Northern Italy in 1479, this extraordinary volume contains thirty-seven spectacularly illuminated literary units representing a variety of classical and medieval Hebrew texts.

Original lavishly blind-tooled calf, clasps and hinges, solander box. Thick 4to.

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