Tzurath Ha’aretz. * With (as issued): ELIJAH MIZRACHI. Kitzur Malecheth Hamispar.

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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ABRAHAM BAR CHIYA.

Tzurath Ha’aretz. * With (as issued): ELIJAH MIZRACHI. Kitzur Malecheth Hamispar.

FIRST EDITION. First title page printed in red and black ink. With numerous woodcut illustrations. Edited and with Latin commentary by Sebastian Munster. Printer’s device at end of each work. Opening title in red and black. ff.(4),pp.351,(2),207-1,ff.(1), apparently lacking 5 introductory Latin leaves. Lightly stained. Later cloth-backed marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Basle 75; Mehlman 1861; Prijs, Basle 75

Basle: H. Petri 1546

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,800

Two important works on cosmology and arithmetics, both edited by the great 16th century German Hebraist Sebastian Münster.