Shiltei Hagiborim [on the Second Temple]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 497

PORTALEONE, ABRAHAM

Shiltei Hagiborim [on the Second Temple]

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles all within a decorative typographical border ff. (12), 186. Lightly foxed, scattered worming, taped in places, occassionally affecting a few letters, opening two leaves from another copy, many leaves rehinged, marginalia, signed by censor on final leaf. Later blind-tooled morocco. Folio Vinograd, Mantua 196

Mantua: Vicenzo Gonzaga 1612

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

An encyclopedic work on war, music, numismatics, weaponry, architecture - all discussed in order to elucidate the details of the Temple in Jerusalem. “Portaleone’s treatment is so discursive as to make the work a compendium of all branches of of science known in his day, in which all of the ten languages he knew were amply used.” EJ, XIII cols.908-9. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp.315-9