Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO. De Hebraicae typographiae origine ac primitiis disquisitio. [8], 100 pages. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked; title lightly foxed, with small hole in blank lower margin. Parma: Typographia Regia, 1776

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first edition of the first monograph on 15th-century Hebrew printing by the pioneer investigator of the subject. The book contains descriptions of 50 Hebrew incunabula based largely on copies in his own collection, and 31 spurious editions cited by other authors. Bigmore & Wyman II, 274; EJ VIII, 1322.