A new record price for printed Hebraica was set last month at Christie’s sale of 100 duplicate rare books from the library of the Jewish Theological seminary of America. Ibn Sahula’s Meshal ha-Kadmoni, an illustrated collection of fables and allegories printed in Brescia in 1491, sold for $176,000–the highest price ever paid for a single printed Hebrew book.
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