Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text] * BOUND WITH: Yesha Elo-him [commentary to the Hoshanoth and Hakafoth with laws of Lulav]

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 195

PESANTE, MOSES

Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text] * BOUND WITH: Yesha Elo-him [commentary to the Hoshanoth and Hakafoth with laws of Lulav]

BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. 19th-century North African purchase notation on front free-endpaper. The Samuel Schoenblum copy pp. (3), 103, (4). Damp-soiled with marginal wear, opening three leaves supplied from a shorter copy. 19th-century sheep-backed boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Const. 231 and 230 ; Yaari, Const. 172 and 171; Mehlman 615 and 613; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1567

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

Originally stemming from Turkey, Pesante was an emissary of Safed who travelled from 1565 through the Balkan Peninsula. He was murdered in Greece in 1573. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) p. 236