(Ed.) Chochmath HaMazaloth - Kalendarium Hebraicum.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,500

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author

MüNSTER, SEBASTIAN

printer

Johann Froben

Place

Basle

Publication

1527

Description

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Printer’s device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf. Numerous woodcut astronomical illustrations. Historiated woodcut initials. Includes both foldout plates (between pp. 52-53 and pp. 116-117) found in only a few copies (cf. Prijs, Basle 24).

references

Vinograd, Basle 23; Mehlman 1871.

summary

Important collection of Jewish astronomical, chronological and calendrical treatises, together with philosophical poems.

pp. (8), 200, (16). Few light stains. Modern calf. 4to.

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