(NACHMANIDES. RaMBa”N). Peirush Ha-Torah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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MOSES BEN NACHMAN

(NACHMANIDES. RaMBa”N). Peirush Ha-Torah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]

Title within decorative border with ornate floral design; with poem containing the acrostic “Gershom.” Initial words within white-on-black decorative surround ff. 177 (of 178), text complete, lacking final blank only (as the Mehlman copy at JNUL). Coontemporary blind-tooled calf, scuffed. Sm. folio Vinograd Pesaro 34; Mehlman 673; St. Cat. Bodl. 6532, 51

Pesaro: Sons of Soncino 1513-14

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $17,000

EXTREMELY RARE. The bookseller and scholar, David Frankel was wont to advise his clients that early Pesaro books were more scarce and prized than were many incunabula. After Rashi, the most popular commentary to the Pentateuch is undoubtedly that of Nachmanides (b. Gerona, 1194 - d. Eretz Israel, 1270). The fact that there were as many as three incunabule editions (two within a year of one another) of Nachmanides’ Commentary to the Pentateuch, attests to the immense popularity of the work