Hebrew.) Esrim Ve’arbah

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

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

author

(BIBLE

printer

Konrad Walkirch

Place

Basle

Publication

1611-12

Description

Three parts in one. Edited by Mordechai Wahl. Title within four-part typographical frame, initial word of each Book encompassed by ornamental border. With vocalization points (nikud) and cantilation points. Printed in parallel columns. Extensive marginalia

references

Vinograd, Basle 241; Prijs 207; Mehlman 34; not in Darlow & Moule

summary

A fine copy, in a handsome contemporary binding, of a rare Bible. The JNUL copy severely incomplete. Extensive marginal notes in various 17th-century Ashkenazic hands containing material of a kabbalistic nature

pp. 224;187; (pp. 51 and 187 repaired without loss of text), pp.162,163-334. Browned. Contemporary blind-ruled black morocco boards with central gilt-tooled crests on upper and lower covers, spine in compartments, gently rubbed at extremities. 8vo

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