Shemesh Lashon HaKodesh - Sole della Lingua Santa.

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

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

author

FRANCHI, GUGLIELMO

printer

Comino Ventura

Place

Bergamo

Publication

1591

Description

Two folding grammatical charts. An uncut copy.

summary

This work represents the first appearance of Hebrew printing in this ancient walled city located in Lombardy, Northern Italy. This edition unknown to M. Rosenfeld in his Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1992) who records only a later, 1603 edition (see no. 30).

ff. 415. Foxed and stained. Later limp boards, modern slip-case. 4to.

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