Simanei VeKitzurei HaMordechai. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi.

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 107

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI

Simanei VeKitzurei HaMordechai. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi.

Second edition. <<The R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (Ish Ge’r) copy>> with his signature on title (and two other places), as well as a signature “…Modena…” Verso of title-page is a 3-line autograph manuscript note by Graziano recording from whom, and where, he purchased this book. Ish Ger has also noted the Tracatate division on top left corner of each recto leaf throughout the entire volume. ff. 176. Touch stained, remnants of stamps on title-page. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf, title gilt on spine. 8vo. Vinograd, Riva 11.

Riva di Trento : (Jacob Marcaria) 1559

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

A learned and broad-minded rabbi, Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano of Modena (d. 1684), was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. See S. Baron, Teshuvah…me’eth R. Abraham Graziano in: Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6.