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Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
May 25, 2021
Opening: $10,000
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Unsold
Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1543-1546. Complete set in fifteen pocket size volumes.
Each title page bears the Stephanus printer's device – a 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 HaIvriim, illustration 27 and p. 135.
15 volumes. Bereshit: [146] leaves. Shemot: [123] leaves. Vayikra: [88] leaves. Bamidbar: [122] leaves. Devarim: [127] leaves. Yehoshua, Shoftim: [77]; [73] leaves. Shmuel: [176] leaves. Melachim: [184] leaves. Yeshayahu: [131] leaves. Yirmiyahu: [168] leaves. Yechezkel: [144] leaves. Trei Asar: [117] leaves. Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, Five Megillot: [159], [1]; [53]; [61]; [80] leaves. Daniel, Ezra and Nechemia: [47]; [20]; [43] leaves. Divrei HaYamim: [183] leaves.
Approx. 10-11 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Overall good condition. Some stains (including several dark stains and ink stains). Small tears to several leaves, without loss or damage to text. Tehillim vol. with gilt edges. Original parchment bindings (apart from Tehillim, bound in a later binding). Stains and damage to bindings (including holes from removal of clasps). Inscription and stamp in Tehillim volume. Slipcased.
Provenance: Valmadonna Trust Library.
Each title page bears the Stephanus printer's device – a 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 HaIvriim, illustration 27 and p. 135.
15 volumes. Bereshit: [146] leaves. Shemot: [123] leaves. Vayikra: [88] leaves. Bamidbar: [122] leaves. Devarim: [127] leaves. Yehoshua, Shoftim: [77]; [73] leaves. Shmuel: [176] leaves. Melachim: [184] leaves. Yeshayahu: [131] leaves. Yirmiyahu: [168] leaves. Yechezkel: [144] leaves. Trei Asar: [117] leaves. Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, Five Megillot: [159], [1]; [53]; [61]; [80] leaves. Daniel, Ezra and Nechemia: [47]; [20]; [43] leaves. Divrei HaYamim: [183] leaves.
Approx. 10-11 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Overall good condition. Some stains (including several dark stains and ink stains). Small tears to several leaves, without loss or damage to text. Tehillim vol. with gilt edges. Original parchment bindings (apart from Tehillim, bound in a later binding). Stains and damage to bindings (including holes from removal of clasps). Inscription and stamp in Tehillim volume. Slipcased.
Provenance: Valmadonna Trust Library.
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Bibles and Tehillim
Catalogue
Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
May 25, 2021
Opening: $2,500
Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000
Sold for: $8,750
Including buyer's premium
Tehillim, with vocalization and cantillation marks, divided for the seven days of the week. Venice: Zuan di Gara, 1590.
Fine ornamental title border. The title page reads: "Give a share to each day of the week" (printed in the center). Index leaves at the end of the volume divide the Psalms according to the days of the week.
Fine copy. 73, [3] leaves. Approx. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains (including dark stains to several leaves). Handwritten inscriptions (in Latin). Early leather binding, with gilt decorations.
Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on the copy in the Schocken Library.
Habermann, HaMadpis Zuan di Gara, no. 12.
Fine ornamental title border. The title page reads: "Give a share to each day of the week" (printed in the center). Index leaves at the end of the volume divide the Psalms according to the days of the week.
Fine copy. 73, [3] leaves. Approx. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains (including dark stains to several leaves). Handwritten inscriptions (in Latin). Early leather binding, with gilt decorations.
Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on the copy in the Schocken Library.
Habermann, HaMadpis Zuan di Gara, no. 12.
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Bibles and Tehillim
Catalogue
Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
May 25, 2021
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $13,750
Including buyer's premium
Psalterio de David en hebrayco dicho Thehylim, trasladado con toda fidelidad verbo por verbo del hebrayco, Book of Tehillim translated to Spanish, edited by David de Yacob Valeusino [Valensino]. Livorno: Giovanni Vincenzo Bonfigli, 1655. Spanish. Miniature book.
The present Tehillim was printed entirely in Spanish. Foreword by the publisher and translator, David de Yacob Valensi (Valensino), on pp. [3-4] (also in Spanish). Each page of text is set within a frame.
The book was printed for the Marrano community in Livorno. This is the second publication printed for the community, following the Spanish Haggadah which Bonfigli printed a year earlier.
[4], 268, 279-396, [14] pages. 10 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor wear. First two leaves detached. Leaves trimmed, with slight damage to text and page borders. New binding.
Not in the NLI catalog.
Regarding the history of Hebrew printing in Livorno in its early years, and the Bonfigli press, see: Y. Rofè, Toldot Batei HaDfus HaIvriim BeLivorno, Tagim, II, Bnei Brak, 1971, pp. 123-124.
The present Tehillim was printed entirely in Spanish. Foreword by the publisher and translator, David de Yacob Valensi (Valensino), on pp. [3-4] (also in Spanish). Each page of text is set within a frame.
The book was printed for the Marrano community in Livorno. This is the second publication printed for the community, following the Spanish Haggadah which Bonfigli printed a year earlier.
[4], 268, 279-396, [14] pages. 10 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor wear. First two leaves detached. Leaves trimmed, with slight damage to text and page borders. New binding.
Not in the NLI catalog.
Regarding the history of Hebrew printing in Livorno in its early years, and the Bonfigli press, see: Y. Rofè, Toldot Batei HaDfus HaIvriim BeLivorno, Tagim, II, Bnei Brak, 1971, pp. 123-124.
Category
Bibles and Tehillim
Catalogue
Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
May 25, 2021
Opening: $1,800
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Sold for: $2,250
Including buyer's premium
Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim translated to Spanish – Biblia en lengua Española traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca, por muy excelentes letrados vista y examinada por el officio de la Inquisicion. Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1661. Spanish.
Fine engraved title page.
The translation in this edition is based on the famous Ferrara Bible – first complete translation of the Bible to Spanish, first printed in Ferrara in 1553. The present edition was corrected and underwent further proofreading by R. Samuel de Cazeres.
[16], 639, 642-786, 789-1325, [6] pages. Approx. 19 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Good condition. Minor stains. Open tear to one endpaper. Handwritten inscription on title page. Original parchment binding (rebound), damaged and partially detached.
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was home to a large Sephardi community. Most of its members were descendants of Marranos who emigrated from Spain and Portugal a century after the expulsion. The present Bible was printed for the members of this community who had lost familiarity with the Hebrew language.
Fine engraved title page.
The translation in this edition is based on the famous Ferrara Bible – first complete translation of the Bible to Spanish, first printed in Ferrara in 1553. The present edition was corrected and underwent further proofreading by R. Samuel de Cazeres.
[16], 639, 642-786, 789-1325, [6] pages. Approx. 19 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Good condition. Minor stains. Open tear to one endpaper. Handwritten inscription on title page. Original parchment binding (rebound), damaged and partially detached.
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was home to a large Sephardi community. Most of its members were descendants of Marranos who emigrated from Spain and Portugal a century after the expulsion. The present Bible was printed for the members of this community who had lost familiarity with the Hebrew language.
Category
Bibles and Tehillim
Catalogue
Auction 78 - Rare and Important Items
May 25, 2021
Opening: $5,000
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000
Sold for: $12,500
Including buyer's premium
Tehillim, with the Be'urei Zohar and Metzudat Tzion commentaries. Safed: R. Yisrael Bak, [1833].
Fine copy, in a gilt-decorated leather binding. The initials of the owner, "Y.Ch.V." are lettered on the front and back boards.
One of the first books printed by R. Yisrael Bak in Safed, about one year after he established his printing press in the city. First Tehillim printed in Eretz Israel.
A foreword by the printer R. Yisrael Bak is printed on the verso of the title page: "And all who purchase and spend their gold and silver on books printed here in the Holy Land, especially books of Tehillim with the Zohar to carry in his bosom and in his bag, G-d should save him from all distress, harm and fright…". This is followed by another long foreword by the publisher, R. Gershon Margolies. He tells how he begged R. Yisrael Bak not to print the Be'urei HaZohar kabbalistic commentary alone, rather alongside the verses of Tehillim and reports that his request was ultimately fulfilled in the present edition.
Kavanat HaMeshorer (the intent of the poet) is printed at the beginning of each Psalm. The volume also contains prayers recited before and after reading Tehillim on weekdays, Shabbat, Yom Tov and Hoshana Raba night, and a prayer for the sick and Seder Pidyon Nefesh.
A handwritten leaf is enclosed in this copy, describing R. Eliyahu Cafsuto's great desire to acquire a Tehillim from this edition in Florence, several years after the printing:
"Florence, 2nd Iyar 1837, behold I am 65 years old and I have not yet merited to acquire a book of Tehillim printed in Safed, until my dear, honored acquaintance R. Eliezer Cuomo(?) of Bologna(?), a bookseller, came and I asked him if he has a book of Tehillim from a fine, high-quality printing. He gave me one, and I was extremely happy to see it, and asked him to name his reward. He didn't want anything, saying that it should be a souvenir of our friendship, and begging me to accept the gift… I, Eliyahu son of Moshe David Eliezer Cafsuto…".
This inscription was documented by Prof. Meir Benayahu in his article The Printing Press of R. Yisrael Bak in Safed (Areshet IV, 1966, p. 279). Benayahu writes that it "shows the prominence of this edition in the eyes of the public".
Fine copy. [4], 152 leaves. 14.5 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Good condition. Some stains. Margins trimmed, with slight damage to headings in several places. Fine, original, gilt-decorated leather binding. Title and owner's initials gilt lettered. Worming and damage to binding (including holes from removal of clasps).
Fine copy, in a gilt-decorated leather binding. The initials of the owner, "Y.Ch.V." are lettered on the front and back boards.
One of the first books printed by R. Yisrael Bak in Safed, about one year after he established his printing press in the city. First Tehillim printed in Eretz Israel.
A foreword by the printer R. Yisrael Bak is printed on the verso of the title page: "And all who purchase and spend their gold and silver on books printed here in the Holy Land, especially books of Tehillim with the Zohar to carry in his bosom and in his bag, G-d should save him from all distress, harm and fright…". This is followed by another long foreword by the publisher, R. Gershon Margolies. He tells how he begged R. Yisrael Bak not to print the Be'urei HaZohar kabbalistic commentary alone, rather alongside the verses of Tehillim and reports that his request was ultimately fulfilled in the present edition.
Kavanat HaMeshorer (the intent of the poet) is printed at the beginning of each Psalm. The volume also contains prayers recited before and after reading Tehillim on weekdays, Shabbat, Yom Tov and Hoshana Raba night, and a prayer for the sick and Seder Pidyon Nefesh.
A handwritten leaf is enclosed in this copy, describing R. Eliyahu Cafsuto's great desire to acquire a Tehillim from this edition in Florence, several years after the printing:
"Florence, 2nd Iyar 1837, behold I am 65 years old and I have not yet merited to acquire a book of Tehillim printed in Safed, until my dear, honored acquaintance R. Eliezer Cuomo(?) of Bologna(?), a bookseller, came and I asked him if he has a book of Tehillim from a fine, high-quality printing. He gave me one, and I was extremely happy to see it, and asked him to name his reward. He didn't want anything, saying that it should be a souvenir of our friendship, and begging me to accept the gift… I, Eliyahu son of Moshe David Eliezer Cafsuto…".
This inscription was documented by Prof. Meir Benayahu in his article The Printing Press of R. Yisrael Bak in Safed (Areshet IV, 1966, p. 279). Benayahu writes that it "shows the prominence of this edition in the eyes of the public".
Fine copy. [4], 152 leaves. 14.5 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Good condition. Some stains. Margins trimmed, with slight damage to headings in several places. Fine, original, gilt-decorated leather binding. Title and owner's initials gilt lettered. Worming and damage to binding (including holes from removal of clasps).
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Bibles and Tehillim
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