MOTLON, JACOB BEN SOLOMON

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

Back to Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/334

Next Lot>

Lot 105

MOTLON, JACOB BEN SOLOMON

She’erith Ya’akov-Toldoth Ya’akov [sermons and eulogies]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 71, 90, 4. ff. 89-90 missbound. [Vinograd, Salonika 147; Mehlman 927; not in Adams; JNUL copy incomplete]. Salonika, Abraham Bat-Sheva, 1597. * SHEM TOV BEN JOSEPH SHEM TOV. Drashoth Hatorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Third Edition. ff.81. [Vinograd, Padua 2; not in Adams]. Padua, Lorenzo Pasquato, 1567 Lightly browned and stained in places, marginal repairs to last two leaves of first work. Later blind-tooled calf, worn and rubbed. Sm. folio

v.p.: v.d.

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

Despite the ancient presence of the University - one of the great institutions of learning in Europe - only two Hebrew books were printed in Padua throughout the 16th century. See Amram, pp. 338-41 and 387-88