Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Collection of Catalogs and Portfolios of Facsimile Plates of Hebrew Manuscripts

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium

Collection of catalogs and portfolios of facsimile plates of Hebrew manuscripts, comprising descriptions and pictures of many manuscripts from various periods:
• The Fragment of Talmud Babli Pesachim, of the Ninth or Tenth Century, in the University Library Cambridge, edited by W. H. Lowe. Cambridge, 1879.
• Facsimiles of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, edited by Adolf Neubauer. Oxford, 1886. Vol. III. With many pictures of manuscripts.
• Documents de Paléographie Hébraique et Arabe publiés avec sept planches photo–lithographiques, by Adalbert Merx. Leiden, 1894.
• Talmudical Fragments in the Bodleian Library, edited by S. Schechter and Rev. S. Singer. Cambridge, 1896.
• Fragments of the Books of Kings, According to the Translation of Aquila, by F. Crawford Burkitt, with foreword by C. Taylor. Cambridge, 1897.
• Hebrew Iluminated Bibles, of the IXth and Xth Centuries, and a Samaritan Scroll of the Law of the XIth Century, by M. Gaster. London, 1901. Two copies in different bindings.
• Specimina codicum orientalium, by Eugenius Tisserant. Bonn, 1914. Folder (damaged), with individual facsimile plates of various Oriental manuscripts (including Hebrew manuscripts).
• An Autographed Maimonides Letter from The Cairo Genizah, from the collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. [New York, 1997].


14 items. Size and condition vary.


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv.

Facsimiles, Bibliophilia and Research Books
Facsimiles, Bibliophilia and Research Books