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The Marx Library (Part II).
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LOT 48:
(BINDING). (Bible).
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(BINDING).
(Bible). Torah Nevi’im U’Kethuvim.
Engraved additional title. Three divisional titles.
Contemporary calf gilt with two large silver clasps and hinges.
* (Pentateuch and Five Scrolls) ff. (1), 181, (2); * (Early Prophets) ff. 142; * (Later Prophets) ff. (1), 144-286, (1); * (Writings) ff. 152, (1).
Light stains, lower corner of f. 136 torn affecting a few words. Marbled endpapers. Thick 8vo.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 795.
Amsterdam, Immanuel Athias, 1700-05.
On verso of opening title is a 4-line Hebrew poem signed in autograph by the publisher, David Nunes Torres, in order to authenticate the edition.
See Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 1585-1815, Vol. II (1987) p. 328.
