Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 193:
SOLOMON BEN ISAAC (RASH’I)
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Sold for: $5,000
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Pirush HaTorah VeChamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Pentateuch and Five Scrolls]
Second issue (variant). Opening of each Book decorated with Zodiacal woodcuts. ff. 182 (of 191). Supplied in facsimile: ff. 1, 9, 185-191. Trimmed, browned and stained, wormed with loss of text in places. Modern crushed morocco with gilt dentelles. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Augsburg 5; M.N. Rosenfeld, Augsburg 41.
Chaim Schwarz, Augsburg: 1533.
Complete copies of this essential text are almost unknown.
The Augsburg printer, Chaim (Shachor) Schwarz was among the pioneers of Hebrew printing outside of Italy. He had previously worked in Prague and was responsible for the issue of the famed Prague Hagadah of 1526.
