Menorath HaMa’or ["The Candelabrum of Light” Ethical Treatise]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

ABOAB, ISAAC.

printer

G. Ruffinelli

Place

Mantua

Publication

1563

Description

On final page, printer's device of Brothers Filipponi (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 29). From the Library of Adolph Lewisohn, with his bookplate.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 95

summary

First published in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath HaMa’or has been an immensely popular and inspirational ethical work through the centuries. The publisher state on the title-page of the present edition that based upon an old manuscript recently discovered, many errors that appeared in earlier editions have now been corrected.

ff. 116. Some staining, marginal paper repairs. Later gilt crushed morocco, a.e.g. Boards detached, spine sunned. Sm. folio

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