Mikneh Avram - Peculium Abrae.

AUCTION 83 | Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps, Ceremonial Objects, Fine & Graphic Art

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Lot 43

BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.

Mikneh Avram - Peculium Abrae.

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Interesting ownership inscription on f. 5r. ff. (316). Trace wormed, lightly stained in places, title-page with stamp and repaired. Later vellum-backed boards, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 81; Mehlman 1868.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Distinguished in many fields, de Balmes served as physician to Cardinal Grimani of Venice and lectured at the University of Padua where he attained renown as an Aristotelian. Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Daniel Bomberg, with whom a deep friendship was shared. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-7.