Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 76:
FRANCHI, GUGLIELMO
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Shemesh Lashon HaKodesh - Sole della Lingua Santa.
Two folding grammatical charts. An uncut copy. ff. 415. Foxed and stained. Later limp boards, modern slip-case. 4to.
Comino Ventura, Bergamo: 1591.
This work represents the first appearance of Hebrew printing in this ancient walled city located in Lombardy, Northern Italy. This edition unknown to M. Rosenfeld in his Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1992) who records only a later, 1603 edition (see no. 30).
