Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Bible – Paris, 1544-1546 – Pocket Edition – Fine, Complete Set in Seven Volumes – Early Leather Bindings
Opening: $4,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Sold for: $16,250
Including buyer's premium
Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1544-1546. Complete set in seven pocket-size volumes.
Each title page bears the Stephanus printer's device – an elderly man standing by a tree with several falling branches and a banner that reads "Noli altum sapere" (Latin: Do not be proud). See: Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, illustration 27 and p. 135.
Gilt inscriptions on bindings, with two interlinking letters G and the inscription "Caifsottil".
7 volumes. Volume I (Bereshit and Shemot): [146]; [123] leaves. Volume II (Vayikra-Devarim): [88]; [122]; [107] leaves. Volume III (Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel and Melachim): [77]; [73]; [176]; [184] leaves. Volume IV (Yeshayahu and Yirmiyahu): [131]; [168] leaves. Volume V (Yechezkel and Trei Asar): [144]; [117] leaves. Volume VI (Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, and Five Megillot): [159], [1]; [53]; [61]; [80] leaves. Volume VII (Divrei HaYamim, Daniel, Ezra and Nechemiah): [183]; [47]; [20]; [43] leaves. Blank leaves bound between books in several places. 11 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Light worming to some volumes. Handwritten inscriptions on some title pages. Early leather bindings, with gilt inscriptions. Wear and damage to bindings (with restorations to some volumes).
CB, no. 115; Zedner, p. 97; Roest, p. 167.
Bible and Tehillim
Bible and Tehillim