Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 137:
LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.
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Sold for: $1,500
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Sepher HaDikduk - Grammatica Hebraica. * Sepher Habachur - Liber Electus. * Luach HaBinyanim - Tabula Omnium Hebraicarum. Introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian Münster.
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN. Three parts in one. Hebrew with Latin on facing pages. Introduction and translation into Latin by Sebastian Münster. Printer’s mark on first title and repeated. Additional title-pages. Opening four blank pages annotated written in an elegant hand in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Early signatures on title, marginalia, underlinings in red. ff. (200). Lightly browned. Modern blind-tooled calf. 12mo. Vinograd, Basle 16; Prijs, Basle 18.
Johannes Froben, Basle: 1525.
A previous owner evidently had an aversion to Sebastian Munster, as his name is noticeably crossed out wherever it appears on the title.
