Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Set of HeChatzer HaChadashah Chumashim – Amsterdam, 1768 – Particularly Fine Set in Original Elegant Leather Bindings
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Five Books of the Torah – HeChatzer HaChadashah, tikun sofrim, with commentaries of Rashi and Abarbanel, and additions by R. Shaul Rabbi of Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Leib Zusmans, 1768. Five volumes.
Five-volume set in original elegant leather bindings, with rich gilt decorations and original colorful endpapers. All volumes contain an illustrated half-title page featuring a copper engraving (by the artist Aaron Santcroos), with illustrations of scenes from the Amsterdam synagogue and captions of verses about Samuel and Abraham, alluding to the names of the publishers, "agents of the Ashkenazi community".
Five volumes. Bereshit: [3], 165; 5, [1] leaves. Shemot: [1], 140; 8 leaves. Vayikra: [1], 76; 5 leaves. Bamidbar: [1], 79; 4, [1] leaves. Devarim: [2], 131; 6 leaves. 25.5 cm. Thick, high-quality paper. Colored edges. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears. Light worming to endpapers and binding of some volumes. Margins of illustrated title pages in all volumes trimmed, and title pages mounted on other paper. Original elegant leather bindings. Wear and damage to bindings and spines.
Zedner, p. 111.
Bible and Tehillim
Bible and Tehillim