(BIBLE

Hebrew). Complete, bound in ten volumes.
Printer’s device on all titles, with nikud (vowel points), initial words within engraved cartouche. Ruled in red throughout. * Vol. I: Genesis, ff. (146); Exodus, ff. (123). * Vol. II: Leviticus, ff. 88; Numbers, ff. 122; Deuteronomy, ff. 107. * Vol. III: Five Scrolls, ff. 80; Joshua, ff. 77; Judges, ff. 73. * Vol. IV: Samuel, ff. 176. * Vol. V: Kings, ff. 184. * Vol. VI: Isaiah, ff. 131; Jeremiah, ff. 168. * Vol. VII: Ezekiel, ff. 144; Minor Prophets, ff. 117. * Vol. VIII: Psalms, ff. 160. * Vol. IX: Proverbs, ff. 53; Job, ff. 61; Daniel, ff. 80; Ezra, ff. 47; Nehemiah, ff. 73. * Vol. X: Chronicles, ff. 183.
Touched discolored. Bound in uniform 18th-century gilt-ruled calf, covers tooled with initials above cross, spines in compartments tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked, spines darkened. 16mo. Housed in Valmadonna-custom fitted box. Vinograd, Paris 18; Darlow & Moule (noted only, not listed) below no. 5089; Adams B-1224.
Paris: Robertus Stephanus 1545-46
<< Splendidly printed pocket Renaissance Hebrew Bible. Attractively bound.>>===“A typographical jewel” see F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, An Annotated Catalogue (1982) no. 82.