The Kennicott Bible.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,800

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

author

(ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE).

printer

Facsimile Editions

Place

(London)

Publication

1985

Description

One of 500 numbered copies. Facsimile Edition. Sumptuously illuminated plates, and text. Together two volumes. With: Related papers and correspondence.

summary

The Kennicott Bible, produced in North-West Spain in 1476, is one of the great Hebrew treasures of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. See www.facsimile-editions.com/en/kb/.

Original lavishly blind-tooled calf. Housed in solander box. Thick folio.

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