Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro.

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 103

(MISHNAH)

Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro.

<<DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> Title within architectural arch. Few text illustrations. Some censoring. ff. 116. Previous owner’s marks and inscriptions on many pages, expert marginal repairs, stained in places. Bound in Valmadonna-custom maroon blind-tooled crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Housed in fitted slip-case. Vinograd, Mantua 80; Mehlman 106.

Mantua: Jacob Cohen of Gazolo 1562

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

<<RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 22. The Mantua volumes of this set of Mishnayoth were the last books to be typeset by Jacob Cohen before he retired. He had originally served at the press of Foa in Sabbioneta, and came to Mantua in 1556 where he established for himself a fine reputation for splendid typographical work. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 288-93 and 325.