Shlom Esther [commentary to the Book of Esther].

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 127
TREVES, ISAAC BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON

Shlom Esther [commentary to the Book of Esther].

<<First Edition.>> Title surrounding by five florets. Wider margins. ff. (32). Previous owner’s marks, later printed typographic element pasted to opening and closing page. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled mahogany calf featuring additional gilt flourishes. 12mo. Vinograd, Const. 254; Mehlman 663.

Constantinople: (Solomon & Joseph Yavetz c. 1575)

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
The Author was a member of a rarified family that produced scores of scholars, rabbis and communal workers. It is assumed that the family's origins were in Troyes, France, the birthplace of Rashi, from where it spread throughout Italy and Germany. Another branch of the Treves family is found in Turkey at the end of the 15th century from where a number went to Eretz Israel. Isaac b. Mordechai Gershon was a descendant of this branch, whose home was Safed and where R. Isaac was a disciple of the celebrated R. Moshe Alsheich. Later he was appointed rabbi in Constantinople (1583) and from there, went to Venice where he served on its Beth Din. He also became renowned as a proofreader and publisher of the works of the scholars of Safed. See the exchange of articles concerning Isaac Treves between I. Sonne and D. Tamar in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. XXXIII (1958) pp. 377-8 and Vol. XXXIV (1959) p. 136.