Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Bible – Basel, 1611-1612 – Small Format
Opening: $600
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Bible – Five Books of the Torah, Neviim Rishonim and Acharonim, and Ketuvim. Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1611-1612.
Two columns per page.
After Divrei HaYamim: list of haftarot according to all customs.
Five Megillot printed after the Torah.
Bound with a Greek edition of the New Testament. [Antwerp: Plantin, 1574], with decorated title page.
224; 187, [7]; [1] blank leaf; 334 pages. Ketuvim bound after Torah. New Testament: [2], 207 pages. 15.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Light wear and small tears to margins of title page and several other leaves. Title page of New Testament cut and pasted on a new leaf (affecting illustrated frame). Early leather binding, with gilt decorations and original colorful endpaper. Light damage to binding.
CB, no. 395.
Bible and Tehillim
Bible and Tehillim