Auction 106: Rare Hebrew Books
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jun 27, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
The Marx Library (Part II).
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LOT 43:

(BIBLE,

Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire ...

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Auction took place on Jun 27, 2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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(BIBLE,

Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire Twenty-four Books].


Four parts, complete in two volumes. Four title pages, each within ornate architectural arch. Printed with Nikud (vowel-points). Wide margins. Marginalia.


ff. (148), (112); (120); (128). Lightly stained in places, upper corner of final seven leaves neatly repaired. Later handsome half-morocco over marbled boards. 4to.

cf. Vinograd, Frankfurt on der Oder 4 (noting octavo format); Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) p. 710.


Frankfurt on der, Oder Johannes and Friedrich Hartmann, 1595-6.


“The first [Hebrew] work printed in Frankurt on the Oder.”

See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, pp. 858-9.