Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $850

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

author

(BIBLE,

printer

Capa Elon (i.e. Pierre de La Rouvière)

Place

Geneva

Publication

1617-18

Description

Printer’s device on opening title. Three divisional title pages and additional sectional blanks. Initial words within woodcut historiation. Printed in double columns, with Nikud (vowel points). Chapters in a red calligraphic hand. Marginal notations in Latin practically throughout.

references

Vinograd, Geneva 11; Darlow & Moule 5118.

summary

The personal copy of the Danish theologian Efraim Philemon Petri (1864-1924) with his inscription and photographic portrait on opening blanks.

ff. 369, (1), 124. Lightly browned and stained. Later gilt-tooled sheep, rubbed. Thick 4to.

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