Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BIBLE IN HEBREW.) Sefer Arba'a ve-Esrim. Vocalized text with the commentary Minhat Shai by Jedediah Solomon Norzi. Letterpress titles printed in red and black. [4], 142; [2], 88; [2], 98; [2], 51, [2], 5 leaves, including 4 engraved additional titles showing biblical scenes. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary mottled sheep, worn and shaken, spines damaged, second volume slightly shorter than the first; scattered minor marginal stains, narrow horizontal strip excised from blank portion of first and third letterpress titles, first volume lacks front free endpaper. Mantua: Raphael Hayyim me-Italya, 1742-44

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Darlow & Moule 515 ("one of the most complete critico-masoretic Bibles"); Vinograd, Mantua 397.