May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 182

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Bible in Hebrew, ed. Elias Hutter (c. 1553-1609)
Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Pars Prima [-Quarta].

Hamburg: Saxo, 1587-1588.

Large folio volume, three parts in one volume with divisional title pages; lacking the first general title page, woodcut compartment from the second part used in place of the general title with the inner section containing the text of the divisional title trimmed out, this section mounted on a blank sheet at the beginning of the second part; lacking text leaf KKk6 [page 1131/1132]; this copy with singlets added to signatures Xx6 and LLl4; paper repairs to several preliminary leaves following the first title; third and fourth parts with title pages printed within woodcut compartment present and intact; some paper repairs in the text occasionally affecting a word or two, the majority strictly marginal; bound in later sheepskin, with intensive peeling and losses to covering material; 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.

The Hebrew typeface used throughout was designed to aid understanding and reading the language. Root letters are printed with solid strokes, inflectional letters are in an outline typeface, with radical letters appearing in superscript.

Vinograd Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Adams B-1235.