Arugath Habosem [grammar, with section on Hebrew cryptography]. FIRST EDITION

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 30

ARCHIVOLTI, SAMUEL D’.

Arugath Habosem [grammar, with section on Hebrew cryptography]. FIRST EDITION

Many charts, diagrams and unusual devices. ff. 119 (i.e. 118), (2). * BOUND WITH: MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE) DA. Midbar Yehudah [collected sermons and eulogies]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 104 Both titles within ornamental surrounds. Touch stained. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, 4to Vinograd, Venice 953; Habermann, di Gara 215; not in Adams. And Vinograd, Venice, 948

Venice: Giovanni di Gara and Daniel Zanetti 1602

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $850

A fortunate marriage of works: Modena (1571-1648), a child-progidy, was sent away aged nine to study with Archivolti in Padua. f.80r presents a poem written by Modena in memory of another of his teachers, Moses della Rocca. The poem makes sense whether read as Italian or as Hebrew