Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Feb 18, 2021
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 233:
SHAKESPEARE, WILLLIAM.
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Sold for: $500
Start price:
$
400
Estimated price :
$500 - $700
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLLIAM.
Ithiel HaKushi MeVenezia / Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J. E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin.
FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Titles in Hebrew and English.
pp. 35, (1), 298 (i. e. 198), (2). Brittle. English title detached. Later boards. 8vo.
Vienna: Spitzer & Holzwarth Jun. 1874
THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF ANY OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS INTO THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. Smolenskin writes in the the introduction: “Shakespeare’s plays in the Holy Tongue! …what a great prize the translator of these plays has brought into the treasure-house of our [Hebrew] language.” See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1262-3.
