Shulchan (shel) Arba [on proper conduct at the table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come and resurrection of the dead]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: $850

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Third edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks no. 16). Censor’s signature at end (dated 1601), with his ink deletions in places.

references

Vinograd, Venice 296.

summary

Extensive research into Rabbeinu Bachiah’s rabbinic approach and thought was undertaken by Ephraim Gottlieb: The Kabbalah in the Writings of R. Bahya ben Asher (Jerusalem, 1970).

ff. 11. Touch stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut morocco, spine in compartments, titled on spine in gilt. Housed in fitted slip-case. Folio.

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