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[title also in Hebrew]. 4 parts in 1. Woodcut printer's device on Latin title-page; primary Hebrew title & the 3 additional Hebrew title-pages, for the parts, within copper-engraved ornate columnular frames. (4to) 8½x7, modern calf in antique style, morocco spine labels, new endpapers.

The finest Hebrew Bible printed by the famous Menasseh ben Israel, a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, scholar, diplomat and printer, who founded the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626, at age 22. The date on the Latin title-page is 1635; the dates on the three Hebrew title-pages for the parts within have been altered in ink from 1631 to 1636. There are a number of marginal ink notations, in Latin, also occasional ink numbers.