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Lot 121
Sale 5890 - Books and Manuscripts
Jun 25, 2024
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Judaica] Pentateuch and Five Megillot, etc.
Pentateuch, etc.
Amsterdam: Caspar Steen, 1702. Two parts in one volume, printing the Pentateuch, Five Megillot, and Haftorot. First edition. 4to. 407 leaves; lacking two leaves: 1-2, and 1-3. Printed in Hebrew with Yiddish paraphrase. Illustrated with two title-pages printed within architectural woodcut frame. Full contemporary brown calf, remnants of original clasps, rebacked, boards and extremities worn; all edges trimmed; endpapers renewed; light to moderate wear and soiling to text; scattered dampstaining along edges; scattered marginalia; old inscription on rear free endpaper. Fuks, Hebrew Typography 561; Roest, Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica p. 180; Zender 109