Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 165:
(MISHNAH).
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Sold for: $2,750
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Mischna sive Totius Hebraeorum Juris. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Ovadiah Bartenura.
FIRST LATIN EDITION. Hebrew text (and occasional Arabic) with full Latin translation by Willem Surenhuis. Six parts (according to the Six Orders of the Mishnah) bound in three volumes. Each of the Six Orders preceded by a finely engraved frontispiece by Richel, with vignettes illustrating the principle content of each Tractate. Additional engraved plates (some folding). Titles in red and black with printer’s device. Stamp of Immanuel Loew. Lightly browned and foxed in places, ex-library. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, expertly rebacked. Folio. Fuks, Amsterdam 612.
G. & J. Borstius, Amsterdam: 1698-1703.
FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE COMPLETE MISHNAH. A monumental achievement of Hebrew scholarship by the Dutch scholar Willem Surenhuis (1664-1729).
