Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 195:
(BIBLE,
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Sold for: $450
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(BIBLE,
Hebrew). Biblia Sacra Hebraea
Engraved Hebrew title incorporating five Biblical scenes. Second title and Preface in Latin. Three divisional titles with printer’s mark of Joseph Athias (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, 73). Square Hebrew characters with nikud (vowel points) and te’amim (trope or cantillation). Headpieces and tailpieces. Opening few leaves with penciled notations.
ff. (9), 234, 180, 190, 198. Previous owners’ marks in Latin dated 1731 and 1829, touch stained. Contemporary calf, rebacked, new endpapers, rubbed, corners bumped. Thick 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 262; Darlow & Moule 5131.
Amsterdam: Joseph Athias 1659-61
“The first Hebrew Bible with Arabic numeration of chapters and verses” (Fuks, Amsterdam 378). This Hebrew edition became the standard for generations. It contains a lengthy Preface by Johannes Leusden, Professor of the Sacred Tongue at Utrecht, as well as a Commendation by three Professors of Theology at the University of Utrecht including Gisbertus Voetius. Both Leusden and Voetius were Christian Hebraists. See A.L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984) pp. 104-5; 147-8; 310, n. 25.
