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Auction 17 · Lot 104

Mevakesh Hashem [commentary to the Pentateuch] * Devar Shmuel [commentary to Midrash Raba - Deuteronomy]

Estimate
$300–$400
Hammer price
$700

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

author

CHAGIZ, SAMUEL

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1596

Description

Two Volumes Bound in One. BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. Titles within architectural arch, opening words within typographical borders. Ex libris Colbertine Library. Censor's signature on final leaf

references

Vinograd, Venice 823, 818; Habermann, di Gara 162
Vol I: ff. 256 (of 258), (8) lacking ff. 226-7. Vol II: ff. 52 (of 54) lacking ff. 34-5. Few dampstains along lower margin, trace foxing. Censored. Modern boards, sm. 4to
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