Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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Lot 246

LANIADO, SAMUEL BEN ABRAHAM

Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

FIRST EDITION. title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title ff. 270. Lacking ff.7 of indices. Few light stains in places. Later blind-ruled chestnut morocco boards, gently rubbed at corners, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Vence 821; Habermann, di Gara 161; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni de Gara 1596

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $600

Known as the "Baal Hakelim" (all of his works begin with the word "kli"), the author was one of the most prolific scholars of Aleppo