Tzeror Hama’or [Kabbalistic commentray to the Pentateuch]

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 201

SABA, ABRAHAM

Tzeror Hama’or [Kabbalistic commentray to the Pentateuch]

Third edition. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. Title bearing printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 34) within architectural arch ff. 164 (165) lacking f.8. Repaired on verso, f.2 remargined, few light stains. 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Venice 551; not in Adams

Venice: Giorgio di Cavalli 1567

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $250

This edition was the first listed on an Hebrew Index Expurgatorius prepared by Ecclesiastical authorities. It was ordered to be committed to flames. See Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 30