Bible – Torah, Neviim and Megillot. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1543-1546. Six of eight volumes. Lacking last two volumes of Ketuvim: Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov and Divrei HaYamim. Pocket format.
Most volumes in original leather bindings, with clasps (partially lacking and damaged).
Most title pages bear the Stephanus printer's device – an elderly man standing by a tree with several wilting branches and a banner that reads "Noli altum sapere" (Latin: Do not be proud). See: Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, illustration 27 and p. 135.
Handwritten inscriptions to some endpapers and title pages.
Some books have the verses numbered by hand in margins.
Six volumes.
Volume I (Bereshit, Shemot): [146]; [123] leaves.
Volume II (Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim): [88], [122]; [107] leaves.
Volume III (Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel): [77]; [73]; [175] leaves. Lacking partial title page of Shmuel (two blank leaves bound instead at beginning of book).
Volume IV (Melachim): [184] leaves.
Volume V (Yeshayahu, Yirmiyahu, Yechezkel): [131]; [168]; [144] leaves. Title page of Yirmiyahu trimmed and mostly lacking (part with printer's device lacking). Two parts of title page to Yechezkel, after cutting and pasting of one part. Volume
VI (Trei Asar, Daniel, Ezra and Nechemiah, Five Megillot): [117]; [47, 30, 43]; [80] leaves.
10-11 cm. Inside of books in overall good condition, bindings in good-fair condition. Stains. Worming to margins of some volumes, slightly affecting text. Tears and defects in several places. Original leather bindings, with original color endpaper and clasps (remains of clasps on some). Wear and defects to bindings (front of binding detached in most volumes; back binding lacking in fifth volume). Volume IV (Melachim) in a different early binding (worn and partially detached).
Bookplates of "Charles Joseph Harford F.A.S." to six volumes.
