Peirush Masecheth Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers].

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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YA’AVETZ, JOSEPH

Peirush Masecheth Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers].

<<First Edition.>> ff. (96). Browned and stained, margins of few leaves touch frayed toward end, inscriptions on opening leaf including the name Shmuel Pinto. Bound in -custom blind-tooled maroon crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Housed in slip-case. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Adrianople 3; Mehlman 132; S.J. Weiss, Pirkei Avot no. 15.

Adrianople: Solomon & Joseph Ya’avetz (grandsons of the Author) 1555

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $9,000

One of only four books printed at Adrianople (Turkey) <<all uncommonly scarce.>> Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz, the authors’ grandsons, set up a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546. Fleeing Salonika in 1554, likely due to plague, they reestablished their press in Adrianople (presently named Edirne on the Turkish-Greek frontier). A year later, Solomon went to Constantinople and Joseph returned to Salonika where he was active as a printer until 1572 when he rejoined his brother in Constantinople.