(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethics]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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Lot 192

LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL

(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethics]

FIRST EDITION. Title within historited woodcut border. ff. 131 (i.e. 132). Lightly browned, stained in places, title re-hinged. Recent boards. Folio Vinograd, Prague 81; Mehlman 1199; not in Adams

Prague: Gershom ben Bezalel Katz 1596

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

The most concentrated treatment of the MaHaRa”L’s comments on matters of ethical interest. For a detailed analysis of the ethical thought of the MaHaRa”L found in Nethivoth Olam, see M.Fox, The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRa”L, in; Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983), pp.167-185.