Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch]

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

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ARAMA, ISAAC

Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title page. Five parts bound in two. A Fine Copy. ff.557. Vol. I: opening ff.7 with expert marginal repairs with loss of few words on opening page provided in facsimile, some dampstaining; Vol. II: Stamp on first page, final ff.3 remargined, few stains. 19th century half-roan over marbled boards, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Salonika 29; Mehlman 1220; not in Adams

Salonika: Don Judah Gedaliah, Joseph de Crasto & Eliezer de Arles for Solomon ibn Yakar 1522

Est: $20,000 - $25,000

PRICE REALIZED $21,000

First edition of a fundamental work of Jewish homiletics. Very seldom found complete.