Subasta 92 Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Por Kestenbaum & Company
18.2.21
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LOTE 193:

(BIBLE).
(Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire 24 Books].
Woodcut title within ornate arch ...

Vendido por: $1 100
Precio inicial:
$ 600
Precio estimado :
$700 - $1 000
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etiquetas:

(BIBLE).
(Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire 24 Books].



Woodcut title within ornate arch, three divisional titles, initial word of each book within wood-engraved frame. Outline of the 24-book contents penned in Latin on flyleaf with grammatical notations on verso. Previous owners’ signatures (including 18th-century members of the Cotton and Foster families).
ff. 506, (1). Contemporary sheep with indistinct blind-stamped arms with garter flanked by initials “G C, ” rebacked with covers reattached upside down, binding heavily worn, joints cracked, cords intact; opening leaves conspicuously dampstained, scattered later marginalia, ink blot in outer margin of last several leaves, final leaf of Luach HaHaftarot creased and frayed. 17th- and 18th-century owners' inscriptions on front endpaper. Thick 4to. Vinograd, Antwerp 26; Darlow & Moule 5104.
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1580-82


All of Plantin’s Hebrew Bibles “share a characteristic elegance.” See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (1968), no. 170. See also Israel Museum Catalogue, Plantin of Antwerp (1981) pp. 99-100.