Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Dikduk Eliyahu HaLevi – Isny, 1542 – Signature of Rabbi Isaac Berlin

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium

Dikduk Eliyahu HaLevi (Sefer HaBachur), principles of Hebrew grammar, by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Isny: PB [Paulus Fagius], 1542. Second, expanded edition.
Signature on title page of R. Isaac Berlin (1793-1865), a Torah scholar and grammarian in Hamburg, son of R. Elazar Lazi Rabbi of the Three Communities. His annotations to the machzor of R. Wolf Heidenheim were published in the Hanover 1838-1839 edition.
Several handwritten marginal emendations.
102, [1] pages. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Minor marginal tears, including open tears, and open tear to upper margin of title page, not affecting text. Minor worming, minutely affecting text. Early parchment binding, damaged, partially detached.
From the collection of Dan Yardeni.


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Incunabula and Early Printed Books – 15th-17th Centuries
Incunabula and Early Printed Books – 15th-17th Centuries