(RaMCHa”L). Leshon Limudim [rules of poetry, with Kabbalistic influence]

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

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Lot 155

LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM.

(RaMCHa”L). Leshon Limudim [rules of poetry, with Kabbalistic influence]

<<First edition.>> Hebrew text, with Latin and Italian side-bars. A wide-margined copy. ff. 56, (1). Touch stained. Final errata page laid down. Contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, opening hinge split. 8vo. Vinograd, Mantua 340.

Mantua: Raphael Hayim D’Italia 1727

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

Leshon Limudim was Luzzatto’s first appearance in print, composed when the author was just twenty years old. The work is dedicated to Luzzatto’s mentor, Rabbi Isaiah Bassani and includes a poem in honor of the author by David Finzi, who would eventually become Luzzatto’s father-in-law. See Waxman, History of Jewish Literature III, pp. 104-5.