Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Sefer HaShorashim - Napoli, 1490 - Incunable

Opening: $40,000
Unsold
Sefer HaShorashim [Book of roots], by R. David Kimchi (Radak). [Napoli: Azriel Gunzenhauser Ashkenazi, 1490]. Second edition. Incunable.
Printed without a title page. Single column, square script, with sources in the margins in Rashi script.
Colophon on the final page: "I, the undersigned, apologize to all readers, since I proofread this book and found several verses that do not appear in the entire Bible… I have therefore placed them here at the end of the volume… Shmuel ben Meir Latif… Napoli, Elul 1490".
Several handwritten glosses; one unusually long.
[143] leaves (18 gatherings of 8 leaves each). Missing the first blank page of the first gathering. 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Repaired worming. Thick, high-quality paper. Renewed leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine and colorful endpapers. Damaged binding, with worming to the spine.
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