May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
Bible, Hebrew and Latin, trans. Sebastian Munster (1488-1552)
Mikdash Ha-Shem; Hebraica Biblia.

Basel: Michael Isingrinus & Henricus Petri, 1546.

First edition, two thick folio volumes, beautiful large display Hebrew wood type on title page and chapter pages, printed in two columns throughout, in Hebrew (vocalized) and Latin; lacking final ?blank Ttt6; bound in full near-contemporary uniform German limp parchment bindings, edges stained blue, some areas of concentrated contemporary manuscript marginalia; major ink stain on leaf Nn5 (page 705) in the first volume which has chemically burned the page with loss, two smaller stains with similar loss to Qq3 & Qq4 (pages 738 & 739);13 1/8 x 8 in. (2)

Vinograd, Basel 74; Darlow & Moule 5090; Prijs 73.