Kimhi Rabbi David (4 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Good condition copy, 68pp, green covers with black titles to spine and covers. Translated by A. W. Greenup Size: A Format. Book.

There is some light edge foxing otherwise a near fine hardback in a clean and crisp dustjacket; xxxii + 190 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 190 pp. Ex libris, no DJ. Hardcover in good condition, little indication of wear, compression at top and bottom of spine. Endpapers good, binding good, text block appears clear and unmarked throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew. 137 leaves: (2) pages, 5-548 columns. Since there are 2 columns per page, the first two pages were deemed columns 1 to 4, hence the second leaf starts with column 5. 296 x 219 mm. Title within woodcut architectural arch. The date on title page is the month of Markheshvan in the year Hey shin Zayin (5307 on the Jewish calendar, which corresponds to 1546 C.E. However, in the poem on the last page of the book it states that the work was completed in the month of Adar in the year Shin Khet (=5308 on the Jewish calendar. 5308 corresponds to 1548 C.E.). Title printed within architectural woodcut frame, re-margined and repaired, affecting engraved surface and a few words on verso, following leaf repaired, with very slight loss of text, a few other perforations, water staining. Now rebound in green buckram with green leather spine. 65 mm of the blank bottom margin expertly restored. The blank verso of the final leaf has very old inscriptions in Hebrew and Latin alphabet. Water stains. Edges dyed light green. A few leaves have minor damage to bottom blank margin. The very edge of a few leaves have been reinforced using strips of paper with Hebrew writing. David Kimchi composed sefer ha-Shorashim, the second section of his philological treatise, the Michlol, to serve as a useful work that is shorter than the lengthy and detailed treatises of Jonah ibn Jonach ben David Chayyuj, and longer than the very short one of Abraham ibn Ezra.