Mirkeveth HaMishneh [commentary to the Book of Deuteronomy]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1551

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural floral border. On final page, printer's marks of Tobias Foa and Joseph Shalit (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 19-20). With the rare unnumbered final leaf containing a full-page poem by Azariah di Rossi (author of Me’or Einayim). Includes tipped-in note stating this volume was to have been a presentation copy to Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol upon his visit to Yeshiva University in June of 1964.

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1; Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, p. 352, no. 1

summary

THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA. With an important introduction concerning the establishment of the Hebrew press in this town situated in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy.

ff.145, (1). Stained, previous owners' marks. Later marbled boards, rebacked Folio

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