RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide for the Perplexed”] << * With:>> Moses Provencal. Biur Inyan Shnei Kavim [dissertation on the Theorem of Apollonius]

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 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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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/

RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide for the Perplexed”] << * With:>> Moses Provencal. Biur Inyan Shnei Kavim [dissertation on the Theorem of Apollonius]

Third Edition. With commentaries by Shem Tov, Ephodi and Crescas. Title within garlanded architectural columns with printer’s device (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 20). Censors marks, notations and signatures. The Jews’ College copy. ff. (14), (2), 3-174, (2). Trace stained, repair to left border of title. Modern crushed maroon morocco, housed in slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8.

Sabbioneta: Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foa 1553

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

Undoubtedly the most celebrated philosophical text in all of Jewish literature. A work that earned Maimonides his worldwide rabbinic acclaim and the affectionate moniker HaNesher HaGadol (’The Great Eagle’). Provencal’s dissertation and commentary on the Theorem of Apollonius concerning two straight lines that never meet was translated into Italian in 1550 and from Italian into Latin in 1586. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp. 28-9, 236, 266.