Yad Hamelech [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]

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 219
VALERIO, SAMUEL

Yad Hamelech [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]

FIRST EDITION. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. Title within architectural arch ff. 104. Marginal notations, lightly discolored. 19th-century cloth-backed boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 690; Habermann, di Gara 80; Adams V-59 (and repeated, though citing another copy, B-1338)

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1586

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $600
Valerio, was a physician, who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote other commentries to the Bible (see next lot), the present one, was completed in Corfu in 1579