Auction 80
Fine Judaica: * A Singular Collection of Important Hebrew Manuscripts. * Printed Books: Exceptional Offering from Two Notable Collections. * The Yosef Goldman Collection of American-Judaica.
Mar 28, 2019
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USA
242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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Hebrew. Pentateuch and Haphtaroth). Sepher Ezrath HaSopher, Chamishah Chumashei Torah, Tikun Sophrim Vavei Ha’Amudim.
Five volumes. Each with title engraved by Aaron Santcroos, additional letterpress title. Haphtaroth at end of each volume with separate title. Final volume with an 112-year Calendar prepared by Judah Piza: Calendario facil & curioozo em Hebraico & Portuguez. Amsterdam, 1769. Finely bound in uniform contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, featuring floral borders, upper covers bearing owner’s name “Jakob ben Itzik Loewerden Segal” beneath a crown held aloft by two cherubs (the symbol of the Parnassim, or Governors of the community).
Owner’s signatures. Touch foxed. Marbled end-papers, a.e.g. Spines in compartments with gilt numbering, gently rubbed. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1942; Kayserling, 91.
Amsterdam: I. Mondovy for G.J. Janson 1767-1769
A “Parnassim” binding. See Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana-Treasures of Jewish Booklore (1994) pp. 80-1 (illustrated). A rare, complete, uniformly bound set, for a member of Amsterdam Jewry’s aristocracy.
