Lashon Limudim [on the rules of poetry]

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 297

LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM (RaMCHa”L).

Lashon Limudim [on the rules of poetry]

First Edition. Title within a typographical border ff.56,(1). Lightly browned, dampstained in places. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled borads, upper cover loose, lacking spine. 12mo Vinograd, Mantua 340

Mantua: Raphael Chaim d’Italia 1727

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

RaMCHa”L’s first work, writen when he was just seventeen years old. F. Lachower in his seminal Toldoth Hasaphruth Ha’ivrith Hachadashah (1928-32) states that all of Luzzato’s works were heavily infuenced by Kabbalah, despite their subsequent literary fame