Cheshek Shlomo [commentary to the Book of Isaiah, with text].

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 55

HALEVI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC.

Cheshek Shlomo [commentary to the Book of Isaiah, with text].

<<First Edition.>> Title within wreathed architectural columns. Various attractive printer’s devices. Wider margins, uncut. ff. 157. Lightly stained, few neat marginal repairs, stamps removed. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled crushed morocco, outer edges gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Salonika 154; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 66.

Salonika: Mattathias Bath-Sheva (Bassevi) 1600

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

A native of Salonika, the author (1532-1600) writes in the introduction that his grandfather, the physician Maestro Solomon Halevi, a Spanish exile by way of Portugal, settled in Salonika a century earlier. This work continues the Sephardic tradition in both its rationalist and mystical aspects: citing at times Maimonides' Guide, at other times, the Zohar.