Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309
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Sale 2309 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(BIBLE IN HEBREW.) [Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim.] Vocalized text. Integral blanks present. Ruled in red throughout. 17 parts in 8 volumes. 16mo, 109x70 mm, 17th-century red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with crossed scepters in center of covers, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrips by Bernard Middleton, varying wear to cover corners; early monastic ownership inscription imperfectly erased or pasted over on titles, contents otherwise generally quite clean. [Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544-46]
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attractive set of the second estienne hebrew bible and first in small format, following the 1539-44 quarto edition. "This 'pocket' Hebrew Bible has always been regarded as one of the most impressive examples of Hebrew printing of the French Renaissance" (Schreiber). Harvard/Mortimer-French 73; Renouard (Estienne) I, 65 ("un vrai bijou typographique"); Schreiber 82; Vinograd, Paris 18; not in Darlow & Moule.
I--Genesis, [146] leaves; Exodus, [124] leaves II--Leviticus, [88] leaves; Numbers, [122] leaves; Deuteronomy, [108] leaves III-- Joshua & Judges, [152] leaves; Samuel, [176] leaves IV--Kings, [184] leaves; Chronicles, [184] leaves V-- Isaiah, [132] leaves; Jeremiah, [168] leaves VI--Ezekiel, [144] leaves; Twelve Prophets, [120] leaves VII--Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, [120] leaves; Five Scrolls, [80] leaves VIII--Psalms, [160] leaves; Proverbs & Job, [114] leaves.
Provenance: Monastery of St. Michael of the Congregation of Saint Vanne at Verdun, early ownership inscriptions on titles; Wilhelmus Smits, O.F.M., 18th-century armorial bookplates; Thomas Musgrave, presentation inscription to his brother Charles dated 1828, and with the latter's signatures also dated 1828; B. W. Lowbury, M.D., signatures dated 1940.