May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BIBLE IN HEBREW.) Hamisha Humshei Torah [Megillot, Nevi'im Rishonim, Nevi'im Aharonim, Sefer Ketuvim]. Vocalized text. Titles within woodcut architectonic border. [148]; [112]; [120]; [128] leaves. 4 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with concentric historiated roll borders enclosing allegorical panel stamps of Martin Luther on front cover and Philipp Melanchthon on rear cover, binding quite worn; scattered foxing and later marginalia, sheets of gathering 29 in the Pentateuch folded backwards, leaves from an early 19th-century edition of the King James version tipped in. Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann & Friedrich Hartmann, 1595

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Reprint of the 1566 Plantin edition, also issued in octavo and sextodecimo formats. Adams B1236; Vinograd, Frankfurt an der Oder 4.